Tag: Michigan
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Fraudulence in Flint: How Suspect Science Helped Declare the Water Crisis Over
Downtown Flint, Mich. (U.S. Department of Agriculture) Nakiya Wakes sat across from me in a Flint, Mich., coffee shop on one of those cloudy, dreary days symbolic of the reeling Rust Belt city. It was March 2017, nearly two years after Wakes had the first miscarriage. After losing her first baby, she learned there was…
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How a Pediatrician Became a Detective
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha playfully talked to 2-month-old patient Taeyana Brown who has had to drink only bottled water since her birth due to Flint’s ongoing water crisis. Photo: Brittany Greeson for The New York Times Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha exposed the lead poisoning of children in Flint, Michigan FLINT, Mich. — Lead. It was real. I…
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State puts Flint on notice for not fixing water system deficiencies
The Flint water plant is shown in this Flint Journal file photo. FLINT, MI — The city has failed to fix water system problems identified by the state more than nine months ago and now must agree to a schedule for correcting them. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has told Mayor Karen Weaver that…
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Plan to protect Lake Erie from algae blooms isn’t working, study shows
Farm runoff provides fertilizer that turbo-charges algae growth in the western Lake Erie basin. Wochit (Photo: Brenda Culler, Ohio Department of Natural Resources.) Miles of green, mucky and potentially toxic algae blooms on western Lake Erie — and the oxygen-deprived dead zones in the Great Lake that come with them — have led Ohio to…
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Flint Activist LeeAnne Walters Wins Major Environmental Prize
LeeAnne Walters, a recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize, was key in exposing the crisis of lead-laced water in Flint, Mich. A Flint activist who worked to expose the Michigan city’s lead crisis is being hailed as an environmental hero. She’s one of the winners of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize. The honor, announced on…
