''I知 not so sure Flint is the community we want to go out on a limb for.'' -- Debbie Baltazar, EPA [View all]

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FLINT CRISIS:

Panel issues emails showing EPA reluctance to confront state

Tiffany Stecker, E&E reporter
E&E Daily: Wednesday, March 16, 2016

EXCERPT...

"I'll bet that the State will take this personally since they are responsible for the City of Flint's actions; which isn't a bad thing, but they may get VERY defensive," wrote Jennifer Crooks, Michigan program manager in Region 5's groundwater and drinking water division, in a July 9 email. "We need to move forward and work with the State as our partner ... I don't see the benefit in rubbing their nose in the fact that we're right, and they're wrong."

SNIP...

"I'm not so sure Flint is the community we want to go out on a limb for. At least without a better understanding of where all that money went," wrote Debbie Baltazar, chief of state and tribal programs for Region 5, in a Sept. 24, 2015, email.

Money.

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