Judge Rules Obama’s EPA Knew Officials ‘Were Not Warning Flint Residents’ About Lead Levels

[Weatherman2020]

Obama liked poisoning black children.

Judge Rules Flint Can Sue Federal Officials Over Water Contamination

 

[beautress]

Aw, come on Weatherman. Nobody likes to see a kid poisoned. Well, almost nobody, now that I think about those parents who starved their 13 kids and got sent to prison for 25 years apiece this past week...

Did the Federal Officials put a contaminant into a school system or something?

 

[initforme]

Profits over people. Not a shock.

 

[Shrimpbox]

Can we please blame the guilty party here. This is all the fault of the flint city council, but of course the taxpayer funded govt has deeper pockets. Everything is upside down.

 

[initforme]

It's simple. Just go in and fix the problem. Surely the greatest nation on Earth would fix this quickly.

 

[beautress]

The article says water is equally lead-contaminated across the state of Michigan, and that the lead had been reduced in 2014 right after they transferred water from one source to another.

Experts are worried the media are getting too far ahead of themselves. The numbers are “being horribly exaggerated,” Hernan Gomez, an associate professor at the University of Michigan and medical toxicologist at Hurley Medical Center, told The Daily Caller News Foundation in September 2018.

Blood lead levels (BLLs) are no higher in Flint than in other cities across Michigan, said Gomez, who noted that there is no acceptable level of lead in drinking water even if there is a level that is considered tolerable.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) considers a BLL in children of 5 micrograms per deciliter (µg/dL) and higher to be a “reference level.” The annual percentage of Flint children whose BLLs rose above the reference level increased from 2.2 percent to 3.7 percent, a relatively small uptick given actual lead levels, Gomez noted in a 2018 research paper.

These numbers are small relative to previous decades, with the average toddler in the 1970s holding a BLL of 14 µg/dL, a number three times higher than the reference level. Those numbers fell to 0.84 µg/dL by 2014 following a government ban on lead in paint and gasoline in 1971. Children with blood lead levels of 5 µg/dL or higher dropped in Flint from 11.8 percent in 2006 to 3.2 percent in 2016.

CDC recommends treatment for people with BLLs at or above 45 µg/dL.
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Hmm. Seems the OP has left the building.

 

[beautress]

Can we please blame the guilty party here. This is all the fault of the flint city council, but of course the taxpayer funded govt has deeper pockets. Everything is upside down.

The article indicates Flint and a lot of Michigan towns have high lead contaminants in their water. Maybe the state is sitting on a lead deposit or something.

 

[Shrimpbox]

I believe it could have been fixed by just dumping some antidote in the water, a very cheap antidote too if I remember right. Isn’t the lead coming from pipes? Someone help me out here.

 

[mikegriffith1]

Oh, and remember that the Flint town council, which was dominated by Democrats, was the body that decided to change their water supply, not the state-appointed emergency manager. The emergency manager deferred to the town council, since he was not from the area and trusted their judgment. Yet the Dems quickly floated the myth that the emergency manager was to blame for the decision to change the town's water supply.