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  • Federal Judge Orders All Parties In Flint Water Case Into Mediation

    ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Hundreds of people in Flint, Mich. have filed lawsuits over that city’s lead water crisis. They’re seeking damages that range from property value losses to brain damage in children. Most of the lawsuits have been consolidated into one massive case. And today, a federal district judge in Ann Arbor ordered all of…

  • Coalition wants judge to intervene in Flint water deal

    A coalition of religious, environmental and civil rights activists filed a motion Wednesday asking a federal judge to enforce a legal settlement requiring state and Flint officials to replace lead pipes and take other steps to ensure safe drinking water for city residents. Under the settlement, reached in March, the state agreed to spend as…

  • Making Us All Sicker: Detroit Water Shut-Offs May Well Have Caused Irreparable Damage

    Making Us All Sicker: Detroit Water Shut-Offs May Well Have Caused Irreparable Damage

    This story we’ve been telling this season, in this comics journalism series exclusive to Truthout, started for folks like Nicole Hill three years ago. For many across the nation and throughout the world, that was when concern for Detroit’s water crisis started — and ended. Focus shifted to Flint, Michigan, and the work of people…

  • ACLU Wants Flint Kids Screened for Impact of Lead

    Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan want a federal judge to order state and Flint education officials to screen and evaluate all Flint schoolchildren for health and education disabilities stemming from the lead water crisis. The ACLU of Michigan filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of a group of Flint…

  • Study: Fewer pregnancies, more fetal deaths in Flint after lead levels rose in water

    Kansas University assistant professor of economics David Slusky explains his study of the Flint water crisis’ impact on fertility rates and fetus deaths in the city. Babies born in Flint after switch to river water also nearly 150 grams lighter than those born in other areas of Michigan, and gained less weight. The city of…