Flint Water Crisis

Snyder Emails Show A Flalling Department Of Environmental Quality

LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder's critics, hoping to find a damaging email he sent regarding what he knew and what he did about Flint water, likely came away disappointed from reading almost 300 pages of emails he sent and received on the topic in 2014 and 2015. In fact, most of the emails - which

By |2016-01-21T15:24:49-05:00January 21st, 2016|Politics|

DEQ Interim Director Sees Need For Change In His Agency

LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder called for some drastic changes in culture and communications to prevent another city suffering the crisis that struck Flint, but after the governor's State of the State Address Environmental Quality Interim Director Keith Creagh saw the most need for change in his agency. Neither Creagh nor Health and Human Services

By |2016-01-20T18:38:31-05:00January 20th, 2016|Politics|

Flint Water Crisis Protesters Call On Gov. Snyder To Resign: House Minority Leader Agrees

FLINT - A group of roughly 100 citizens protesting the water crisis and associated conditions in Flint called for Governor Rick Snyder to resign, and House Minority Leader Tim Greimel agreed with them but only under certain conditions. "If the governor knew the seriousness of these problems and chose not to act, then he should

By |2016-01-15T11:56:09-05:00January 15th, 2016|Politics|

Snyder Apologizes To Flint Residents For DEQ Water Quality Failure

LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder apologized to Flint residents for the failures of state agencies and called on the departments of Environmental Quality and Health and Human Services to reach out to experts on drinking water quality in light of additional preliminary findings of the Flint Water Advisory Task Force that put the primary responsibility

By |2015-12-29T20:22:49-05:00December 29th, 2015|Clean Update, Featured, Politics|

DEQ Mishandling Of Flint Water Claims Wyant

LANSING - Department of Environmental Quality Director Dan Wyant resigned Tuesday in the wake of interim findings from the task force Governor Rick Snyder commissioned to investigate why Flint's drinking water became contaminated with lead that pointed the finger squarely at the DEQ. Snyder, who is out of state this week on vacation with his

By |2015-12-29T19:59:07-05:00December 29th, 2015|Clean Update, Politics|