GM Stopped Using Flint Water Over a Year Before Emergency Declared (The water was corroding car engines) - NAACP files lawsuit

[Emily]

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/2/17/what_did_gm_the_governor_know

What Did GM & the Governor Know? GM Stopped Using Flint Water Over a Year Before Emergency Declared February 17, 2016

In October 2014, General Motors recognized the Flint water was corroding its engines. They got permission from the city?s unelected emergency manager?who was appointed by Republican Governor Rick Snyder?to disconnect from Flint?s water and go back to Detroit water. It would be another year before the people of Flint were finally allowed to disconnect from the corrosive Flint River as their water supply and hook up again to the Detroit water system. By then, the Flint River water had corroded the city?s aging pipes, poisoning the drinking water with lead, which can cause permanent developmental delays and neurological impairment, especially in children. We speak with a GM autoworker in Flint about the company?s actions once it realized that Flint?s water was corroding car engines...

 

[sharon sanders]

[h=1]NAACP FILES LAWSUIT OVER FLINT WATER CRISIS[/h] May 18, 2016 State officials, companies named in class action civil suit
BALTIMORE, Md.? Attorneys with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People have filed a federal class action lawsuit on behalf of people and businesses affected by the failure to provide safe drinking water to the city of Flint, Michigan.

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http://www.naacp.org/press/entry/naacp-files-lawsuit-over-flint-water-crisis