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Flint water crisis

April 2024

  • A water tower reads "Flint strong"

    America's dirty divide
    Flint residents grapple with water crisis a decade later: ‘If we had the energy left, we’d cry’

  • Dr Mona Hanna-Attisha

    America's dirty divide
    Michigan doctor who revealed Flint water crisis now takes on child poverty

November 2023

  • A young woman with a yellow bandana headband, pink sunglasses with green reflective lenses, and a black and white mask that reads 'Green New Deal'.

    Climate groups launch national tour for Green New Deal

    Exclusive: multistate tour, launching in Michigan on Sunday, aims to pressure Biden on climate action before 2024 election

September 2023

  • Benton Harbor’s water tower in Michigan.

    EPA failed to sound alarm in Michigan water crisis, watchdog finds

    Water remained contaminated in Benton Harbor, 175 miles from Flint, as state regulators attempted fixes that failed for three years

December 2022

  • Rick Snyder in Lansing, Michigan, in 2018.

    Judge dismisses Flint water crisis criminal charges against ex-governor

    Rick Snyder, a Michigan Republican who left office in 2019, was charged with two misdemeanor counts of misconduct

January 2022

  • A Flint water plant tower is seen in Flint, Michigan.

    America's dirty divide
    Revealed: the Flint water poisoning charges that never came to light

    The former criminal prosecution team investigating the Flint water crisis was building a racketeering case against state officials. Then the team was dismantled

December 2021

  • Volunteers distribute water in October at the Southwest Michigan Community Action Agency in Benton Harbor, Michigan.

    America's dirty divide
    Biden administration announces plan to replace 100% of lead pipes in US homes

    While many have praised the plan, some worry it lacks a solid timeline and does not deliver enforceable requirements

November 2021

  • FILES-US-ENVIRONMENT-COURT-FLINT<br>(FILES) In this file photo the water tower at the Flint Water Plant in Flint, Michigan, looms large over the city March 4, 2016 nearly 2 years after the start of the city's water crisis. - The US state of Michigan has agreed to pay some $600 million to victims of the Flint water crisis, a health scandal that became a symbol of social injustice in America, reports said on August 20, 2020. At least 12 people died after the decaying industrial city switched its drinking water source to the polluted Flint River to cut costs in 2014. However, officials failed to add corrosion controls to the new tap water source, allowing lead and other contaminants to leach from the city's aging pipe system, the New York Times and Washington Post reported. (Photo by Geoff Robins / AFP) (Photo by GEOFF ROBINS/AFP via Getty Images)

    ‘Band-Aid on bullet wound’: Flint water settlement leaves some residents angry

  • The Flint Water plant water tower is seen in Flint, Michigan.

    ‘We’ve made history’: Flint water crisis victims to receive $626m settlement

June 2021

  • Claressa Shields won her first Olympic gold at the age of 17

    Claressa Shields: ‘I can drive through Flint now and not get flashbacks’

    As the double Olympic gold medalist switches from boxing to MMA, she reflects on the poisoning of her home town’s water and the upcoming film of her life

April 2021

  • FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2021 file photo, vehicles drive through downtown Flint, Mich. A judge granted preliminary approval Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, to a $641 million deal that would benefit Flint residents who were harmed by lead-contaminated water. The settlement includes $600 million from the state of Michigan, although Flint, an area hospital and an engineering firm are also part of the agreement. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya File)

    ‘My city is on fire’: pandemic wreaks renewed havoc in Flint after water crisis

  • Erika Dickerson-Despenza

    Drama about Flint water crisis takes major theatre award

January 2021

  • April 4, 2018 - Workers load cars with cases of water at the Water Resource “pod” in front of the closed Eastown Bowl Bowling Alley in Flint. Flint Michigan water supply crisis

    Flint water crisis: ex-governor and eight others charged after new inquiry

  • Michigan Governor Snyder testifies before a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington<br>Michigan Governor Rick Snyder testifies before a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing on “Examining Federal Administration of the Safe Drinking Water Act in Flint, Michigan, Part III” on Capitol Hill in Washington March 17, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

    Ex-Michigan governor Rick Snyder to be charged in Flint water scandal – report

December 2020

  • Flint resident Nakia Wakes at home, where she has stored bottled water for her family.

    TV review
    Flint review – a humanitarian disaster doc for toxic times

    If the cameras weren’t there to capture the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, we might not believe it. Nevertheless, Anthony Baxter’s film could ask more questions than it does

August 2020

  • FILE - In this March 21, 2016, file photo, the Flint Water Plant water tower is seen in Flint, Mich. Multiple news outlets report Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020, that the state of Michigan has reached a $600 million agreement to compensate Flint residents whose health was damaged by lead-tainted drinking water. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

    Michigan to pay $600m to Flint residents following drinking water disaster

    Under agreement, residents could file claims for compensation for health issues caused by lead-tainted drinking water

March 2020

  • A still from Flint

    'It was just left to the people': behind a chilling documentary on the Flint water crisis

    British director Anthony Baxter had spent five years documenting the fallout in Flint, Michigan, after a manmade disaster threatened a small community

December 2019

  • The crisis in Flint, a majority-black city of 100,000, has served as a rallying cry for victims of environmental racism across the US.

    Revealed: water company and city officials knew about Flint poison risk

    Exclusive: email exchanges show senior employees knew Michigan residents might risk being poisoned by tap water months before city admitted to problem

October 2019

  • FILE PHOTO: File photo of Flint Michigan residents waiting in line for a House Oversight and government Reform hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington<br>FILE PHOTO: Mari Copeny, 8, of Flint, Michigan, waits in line to enter a hearing room where Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy will testify before a House Oversight and government Reform hearing on "Examining Federal Administration of the Safe Drinking Water Act in Flint, Michigan, Part III" on Capitol Hill in Washington in this March 17, 2016, file photo. Beyond the liability protection enjoyed by government officials, Flint residents who have filed lawsuits over the contaminated water may face challenges in demonstrating that it caused any particular injuries, lawyers and legal experts say. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/Files/File Photo

    Trump administration's new lead rules in water dismissed as 'window dressing'

    Critics say rules give water systems decades more time to replace dangerous pipes and fail to boost urgency for cleaning up lead

August 2019

  • City Of Newark Distributes Bottled Water After High Levels Of Lead Found In Tap Water<br>NEWARK, NEW JERSEY - AUGUST 13: People wait in line for bottled water at a recreation center on August 13, 2019 in Newark, New Jersey. Residents of Newark, the largest city in New Jersey, are to receive free water after lead was found in the tap water. It was reported over the weekend that lead levels in some areas of the city were still not safe and the city has begun distributing bottled water for cooking and drinking. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

    'Damage has been done': Newark water crisis echoes Flint

    The New Jersey city’s lead contamination crisis has been more than three years in the making – and residents feel officials have been slow to act
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