'This will come back and bite us': water company and city officials knew about Flint lead risk

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Exclusive: email exchanges show senior employees knew Michigan residents might risk being poisoned by tap water months before city admitted to problem

Executives at one of the world’s largest utilities companies knew that families in Flint, Michigan, might be at risk of being poisoned by lead in their tap water months before the city publicly admitted the problem, according to internal company emails.

 

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smraskauskas Yang and his kids will drink the water after he fixes it!

February 2015, we printed off thousands of door hangers and had a resident press conference to bring lead contamination awareness to the public. We went door to door warning people. The only people who cared to warn US is robert_bowcock and ErinBrockovich. No one else listened.

GovHowardDean Of course they did. Nobody cares about minorities in American government. tragedy

I was looking back on my archive and on Feb10th, 2015 the lady in this tweet and I put together a story on the '1 women' quoted in those Veolia internal emails. W/out OpFlint the government and private sector would have gotten away with the entire FlintWaterCrisis.

If climate change was man-made, would it be a solution to pass laws in the USA that would move more factories to China❓ Wouldn't this actually increase pollution? China has less environmental regulations ⁉️ ClimateChangeIsReal 🇨🇳 China is behind this narrative! 📣

Chose the company (Nestle) over the people. Making that big money.

They should all go to jail.

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