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A government-appointed civil rights commission in Michigan says systemic racism helped to cause the Flint water crisis, according to a report released Friday.
The occurrence of the FWC represents the perpetuation of environmental injustice and racism in Flint (Mohai, 2018). However, some measures and actions were taken by the government to reduce the effect of the FWC on Flint residents.
A story of environmental injustice and bad decision-making that has yet to be fully resolved, the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, began on April 25, 2014, when the city switched its drinking...
Some tests showed the water in Flint had more than 100 times the legal level of lead. This is just one example of the devastating impacts of environmental racism across the United States.
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — “Systemic racism” going back decades is at the core of problems that caused a lead-contaminated water crisis in the majority black city of Flint, according to a Michigan Civil Rights Commission report issued Friday.
ANN ARBOR—The water crisis in Flint is the most egregious example of environmental injustice in recent U.S. history, according to a founder of the movement who has studied the issue for three decades. Paul Mohai, a professor at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, began studying environmental justice in the ...
Flint’s water was badly contaminated with lead, exposing tens of thousands of people to the potent neurotoxin. Amid denial and deception by authorities, a group of scientists, medics and...
