The Environmental Protection Agency says it’s conducting a full review of what happened in Flint.
For more than a year, state officials assured city residents their water was safe. Those assurances turned out to be wrong.
And it wasn’t until some residents got outside experts involved -- who not only found elevated lead levels in the drinking water, but that blood lead levels were also rising in Flint kids – that the state admitted there was a problem.
One of the more troubling charges made against the state is that the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality knowingly dropped lead test samples to avoid exceeding a federal drinking water standard.
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