Tag: Department of Environmental Quality
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‘Water is a human right,’ Democrats say…
…with new bills addressing Flint crisis, Detroit shutoffs Photo: State Rep. Stephanie Chang, D-Detroit, introduces a package of water quality and affordability bills on November 12, 2015. LANSING, MI — Flint mom Melissa Mays believes her three sons are starting to struggle in school because they drank contaminated city water, and she’s worried the full…
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‘Series of Government Failures’ Blamed for Flint Water Crisis
Michigan state agencies overseen by Gov. Rick Snyder and a series of emergency managers appointed by the governor are to blame for allowing contaminated water into Flint homes, according to a report released Wednesday. The findings —the most sweeping indictment to date of the role state officials played in creating the crisis—were released as part…
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Bill would limit science Michigan uses to regulate toxic cleanups
Young’s Environmental workers dig into a hillside on House Street NE in Belmont, Mich., where Wolverine World Wide dumped tannery waste on what’s now MDOT property. Photo taken Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. Barrels containing tannery waste and animal hides were discovered on the property. (Neil Blake | MLive.com) (Neil Blake | nblake1@mlive.com) LANSING, MI —…
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‘What did we do?’ Families anxious about chemicals found in tap water
Photo: Emergency response teams hand out bottled water to residents at Parchment High School. (CNN)It’s been about three weeks since Tammy Cooper last drank water from her tap. That’s when she saw a warning on Facebook for residents of her small Western Michigan town to stop drinking the water. In Michigan, water main breaks aren’t…
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Hurricane Florence breaches manure lagoon, coal ash pit in North Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C. — Flooded rivers from Florence’s drenching rains have swamped coal ash dumps and low-lying hog farms, raising pollution concerns as the swollen waterways approach their crests Monday. North Carolina environmental regulators say several open-air manure pits at hog farms have failed, spilling pollution. State officials also were monitoring the ongoing threat from the…
