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Grist: “I know if I was a parent up there, I would be beside myself if my kids’ health could be at risk,” said President Obama on a recent trip to Michigan. “Up there” was Flint, a rusting industrial city in the grip of a “water crisis” brought on by a government austerity scheme. To save a couple of million dollars, that city switched its source of water from Lake Huron to the Flint River, a long-time industrial dumping ground for the toxic industries that had once made their home along its banks. Now,......
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Flint isn’t alone: America has a coast-to-coast toxic crisis
Posted by Grist: David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz on February 14th, 2016
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