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  • Michigan sets limit for chemical contaminants in water

    Michigan sets limit for chemical contaminants in water

    Photo: Katy Batdorff / Special to Detroit News Lansing — Amid growing concern over chemical contaminants in the state’s drinking water, Gov. Rick Snyder’s office on Tuesday adopted a threshold for when regulators can act against polluters. The new rule will require state remediation if residential or commercial drinking water is found to have per-…

  • 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…

  • PFAS1 found in drinking water wells in unexpected places

    PFAS1 found in drinking water wells in unexpected places

    Image: A PFAS water well result for a home in Courtland Township tested [by] Pace Analytical and sampled by Gordon Water Systems. (Courtesy) GRAND RAPIDS TOWNSHIP, MI — Katey Morse was wondering about cases of cancer among her neighbors when she decided to have her home’s drinking water well tested for fluorochemicals. Morse doesn’t live…

  • 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…