Rick Snyder noted that “we haven’t received any guidance from the federal government” about the EPA’s funding to address the Flint crisis.Īndrew Rosenberg, who directs the Center for Science and Democracy for the Union of Concerned Scientists, adds research to the list.
In statement quoted by, the press secretary for Michigan Gov. Environmental Protection Agency freeze on grants and contracts and what it could mean to $100 million in federal funds already appropriated for the Flint water crisis,” the news site reported Tuesday. “State officials are seeking more information on a U.S. In Flint, Michigan, where lead contamination has led to the nation’s most notorious drinking-water catastrophe in years, the announcement brought uncertainty and confusion. “It’s one thing to put a pause on new contracts so they can be reviewed, but to reach back and stop existing ones is a whole other can of worms,” Lovera said.
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The EPA turns to contractors for “tons of water stuff, too”-from monitoring water quality downstream from polluters to helping municipalities update water infrastructure to avoid toxins. Superfund, an EPA program responsible for cleaning up the nation’s most contaminated land, is executed through contracts, she said. “The EPA’s not necessarily out there running a bulldozer to clean up a toxic site,” she says. That’s potentially a massive blow to the agency’s core functions, says Patty Lovera, assistant director of the environmental watchdog group Food & Water Watch. If you can prevent public agencies from conducting vital functions, “you can say they don’t do anything, and justify cutting their funding.”
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