Michigan's top environment official resigns in latest development of lead contaminated water crisis.In the latest fallout from Flint, Michigan's public health crisis of lead poisoning its drinking water, Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday said he was "very sorry" and the state's top environmental official resigned. One advocacy group, however, says that full accountability and transparency for this "man-made catastrophe" are still absent.
That catastrophe began in April 2014, as the
Rust Belt city was under control of an emergency manager, and it moved its water supply from the Detroit system to the Flint River without the proper corrosive controls. Lead leached from pipes, putting
thousands of the city's children at risk of brain damage from the contamination and prompting local
outcry. A local pediatrician has
called it an "emergency" situation that is "
alarming and absolutely gut-wrenching." The latest developments are in response to initial findings released by a Snyder-appointed
task force charged with looking into how and why the crisis came to be. The body
put most of the blame on Michigan's environmental regulatory agency.
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