You know about Flint. You’ve heard about Sebring, OH. In both places, basically the same thing happened: lax controls, oversight, and regulation allowed corrosive river water to leach lead from old pipes into the drinking water. Flint is finally being treated like the catastrophe that it is, more than a year after it should have been. […]
The Poisoning of Flint Michigan’s Drinking Water
This story was on the front page of the New York Times on January 20. Pretty shocking story. But if you look into it, it’s been all over the front pages of the state press in Michigan for months. Local papers and MLive have been talking about it nonstop for at least five months — that’s […]