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The special counsel representing the Michigan attorney general's office investigation into the Flint water crisis said that there could be criminal charges in the case.
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He is researching the post-hurricane mental health crisis and says that suicidal thoughts have been reported the most often in remote communities, where power outages and access to food and water have been most severe.
For example, if I said JFK lived in the White House, staved off the Cuban Missile crisis, and could levitate and turn water into wine at will — then my proving that the White House really existed and the Cuban Missile crisis really happened is NOT evidence of the claim JFK could levitate or turn water into wine.
Even today, Flint has the fourth - highest murder rate in the country, but in recent years, Flint's been infamous for a different kind of headline: the water crisis, and the government's subsequent attempt to cover it up («Everybody has been affected by it,» Crews says.).
Scientists say the amounts of meat now eaten, and the ways livestock are raised, appear to exceed the carrying capacity of the planet, resulting in a significant contribution to climate change, water pollution, deforestation, and other environmental crises.
The Ministry says it has been able to provide enough water to the areas affected by the shortage as they look to deal with the drought which has caused the crisis.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette says his Flint water crisis investigation is shifting to the «the trial phase,» but before it gets there, he's ramped up the stakes by charging five state and local officials with manslaughter for their actions related to the Flint water crisis.
«Over 100 days ago by the terms of subpoenas issued by the New York State Senate, Saint - Gobain, Taconic Plastics and Honeywell were to have handed over documents related to the water contamination crises they helped create,» Hoylman said.
The CCOP lawsuit comes a day after the Independent Democratic Conference of the State Senate released a report comparing health concerns among NYCHA tenants to the Flint, Michigan, water crisis, with Sen. Jeff Klein saying «NYCHA is the new Flint.»
Francis said he wanted to use the time before the legislative hearings to highlight how Marchione had mishandled the water crisis so far.
Health officials say in some Buffalo neighborhoods, 40 percent of kids have been exposed to lead, a rate eight times higher than in Flint, Michigan, a city that faced a water contamination crisis that drew national attention.
By Jesse McKinley ALBANY — For the second time in two weeks, New York State Department of Health officials sought to blame the Environmental Protection Agency for a contaminated water crisis in upstate New York, saying on Wednesday that they were confused and hamstrung by changing federal standards on perfluorooctanoic acid, a toxic chemical known as PFOA.
With local water contamination crises rocking our state in recent months, the last thing our residents should have to worry about is clean drinking water,» said McLaughlin.
After previously saying they weren't necessary, he announced a series of public oversight hearings in September that will examine water contamination in communities like Hoosick Falls, where the Cuomo administration's response to the crisis has been widely criticized.
She said another highlight of her time with EPA involved her agency's handling of the Hoosick Falls water crisis.
Senator Marchione says she instead has been discussing whether the Senate should hold hearings on how the Cuomo Administration handled the Hoosick Falls water crisis.
But Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie says while he's not ruling out holding hearings on the state's handling of the Hoosick Falls water crisis, he doesn't plan on holding them anytime soon.
«I think this is a national crisis when it comes to water quality,» Cuomo said.
But Speaker Carl Heastie said while he's not ruling out holding hearings on the state's handling of the Hoosick Falls water crisis, he doesn't plan on holding them anytime soon.
Preserving New York's vast natural resources, addressing the climate crisis head - on, and protecting our air and water are more important than ever,» Niccoli said.
A combination of growing populations and food, energy and water shortages will reach crisis point by 2030, the government's chief scientific advisor will say later today.
But Cuomo defended the state's response to the drinking water crisis during a stop in Syracuse, saying officials moved quickly when it was determined earlier this year the water was unsafe to use.
Flint, Michigan Mayor Karen Weaver thanked Hillary Clinton, saying the former secretary of state's concern over the city's water crisis helped spur government action for her constituents.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo visited Hoosick Falls for the first time since the community's water crisis began, and said the temporary filtration system in the village is now working and clear of PFOA.
But 500 days after the contamination was confirmed, village residents say they feel like they've been shunted aside, even as their crisis spurred a focus on clean drinking water problems throughout New York.
Karen Weaver, the Democratic Mayor of Flint, Mich., endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, saying she's the only candidate to reach out and offer assistance during the city's water crisis.
Cuomo has not gone to Hoosick Falls in neighboring Rensselaer County since the water crisis was revealed, but he said he expects to come within the next few weeks.
With the whole water crisis, he was there from the very beginning,» she said.
At a state Senate hearing on Hoosick Falls» water crisis, Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said the state had followed federal guidelines for navigating the issue, but that the EPA had offered confusing and conflicting directions.
In a letter addressed to state Assemblyman Robert Sweeney (D - Lindenhurst), Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski — the initial author of the letter, which was written late last month — said «the overpopulation of white - tailed deer is a crisis which has plagued the East End of Long Island for many years, negatively impacting not only human health, but water quality, biodiversity, private property, the economy and the agricultural industry.»
«As the federal official who alerted the public about the risk of drinking the toxic water in Hoosick Falls, I continue to be concerned that the state of New York has not learned the lessons from their water crisis,» she said in a statement provided to the Times Union late Tuesday.
Liz Moran, the water and natural resources associate for Environmental Advocates, said in a prepared statement that «we hope that the Legislature will hold hearings to find out what could have been done to prevent the crisis in Hoosick Falls.»
«The loss of heat and hot water is a humanitarian crisis, it's a state of emergency, it's a management failure of the highest magnitude,» said City Councilman Ritchie Torres, a Bronx Democrat who grew up in public housing in the 1990s and said he's never seen the system in worse shape than it is now.
Hickey said the Cuomo administration has gone out of its way to «downplay» the entire water crisis.
Speaking to a crowd of around 2,000 who waited for hours in the cold to hear the address at Cohoes High School in the Albany area, Clinton focused on economic issues, saying she'd push for rebuilding crumbling infrastructures, and mentioning the ongoing water crisis in nearby Hoosick Falls.
That, you could say, has been the problem from the beginning of the Hoosick Falls water crisis.
And as a threat to safe drinking water, So says, «sanitation is the big crisis.»
Yet California and Arizona — the two states water experts say are facing the most severe water crises — continue to count and regulate groundwater and surface water as if they were entirely separate.
«In case of major droughts we [will] have less resources available to cope with the water crisis,» says D'Odorico.
A plan to drill into aquifers in the mountains near Cape Town, South Africa, to address the city's water crisis could harm the region's rich biodiversity, ecologists say.
Ari Adler, a spokesman for Snyder, said the governor has supported the probe «because the people of Flint and across Michigan are owed straight answers about how the Flint water crisis happened.»
Greer said politicizing some health issues is «not all bad,» pointing to what is occurring a bit closer to U-M's home with the Flint water crisis.
«Water will be the principal defining crisis of this century,» Cousteau says.
These examples underscore the many options available to alleviate a growing global water crisis exacerbated by climate change, water experts said yesterday at forum in Washington, D.C., sponsored by Growing Blue, a group created by Veolia Water in consultation with the United Nations, Columbia University and water conservation grwater crisis exacerbated by climate change, water experts said yesterday at forum in Washington, D.C., sponsored by Growing Blue, a group created by Veolia Water in consultation with the United Nations, Columbia University and water conservation grwater experts said yesterday at forum in Washington, D.C., sponsored by Growing Blue, a group created by Veolia Water in consultation with the United Nations, Columbia University and water conservation grWater in consultation with the United Nations, Columbia University and water conservation grwater conservation groups.
California's action to cut water deliveries to zero, from 5 percent earlier in the water season, is dramatic but will not significantly worsen what already is a serious crisis for farmers, said Mike Wade, executive director of the California Farm Water Coalition, an education group that represents farmers, irrigation and water districts and associated agricultural businewater deliveries to zero, from 5 percent earlier in the water season, is dramatic but will not significantly worsen what already is a serious crisis for farmers, said Mike Wade, executive director of the California Farm Water Coalition, an education group that represents farmers, irrigation and water districts and associated agricultural businewater season, is dramatic but will not significantly worsen what already is a serious crisis for farmers, said Mike Wade, executive director of the California Farm Water Coalition, an education group that represents farmers, irrigation and water districts and associated agricultural busineWater Coalition, an education group that represents farmers, irrigation and water districts and associated agricultural businewater districts and associated agricultural businesses.
«Air and water pollution may be of concern to us, but to them it's becoming a public health crisis,» Cleetus said.
By Anna Flávia Rochas and Roberto Samora SAO PAULO, Jan 9 (Reuters)- Southeastern Brazil is getting some rainfall a year after a record drought started, but not enough to eliminate worries about an energy crisis, water shortages or another season of damaged export crops, meteorologists said.
«Corrosion control is an important band - aid that allows us to reduce the risk from the lead pipes for consumers,» said Marc Edwards, an environmental engineer at Virginia Polytechnic Institute who helped uncover the Flint water crisis.
Matt Damon says Michigan governor should resign over Flint water crisis.
The commander - in - chief recently sent an email to Mari Copeny — a Flint, Mich., native who's speaking out for other children affected by the area's water crisis — saying that he would pay her a personal visit when he visits Michigan on May 4.