Water & Oceans

Flint Water: EPA Concerned With 'Inadequate' State And City Response

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said it has serious concerns over the 'inadequate' response to the Flint toxic water crisis by both the city and Michigan officials, pointing to a lack of expert help on the ground and a failure to provide a proper water treatment plan."

Source: Guardian, 02/22/2016

"Flint Mayor Opposes No-Bid Choice To Assess City Pipes"

"LANSING — Gov. Rick Snyder and Flint Mayor Karen Weaver — already at odds over how quickly Flint's lead service lines that carry drinking water to homes should be replaced — are also split over Snyder's choice of an engineering firm that a state document says helped prepare the city before its botched switch to using Flint River water."

Source: Detroit Free Press, 02/22/2016

"EPA Again Postpones Enbridge Fine for 2010 Kalamazoo River Spill"

"Negotiations between Enbridge Inc. and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have been extended again over a fine that could exceed $100 million for violations under the Clean Water Act in the pipeline operator’s 2010 Kalamazoo River disaster."

Source: InsideClimate News, 02/22/2016

"GE, EPA In Dispute Over Federal Plan To Clean Housatonic River"

"Continuing a decades-old dispute, General Electric Co. is sharply objecting to a new federal plan that would force it to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to remove massive amounts of toxic chemicals from the Housatonic River, which the company polluted for nearly 50 years."

Source: Boston Globe, 02/19/2016

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