Flint lead water

A federal judge ruled rules Flint residents can sue the federal government over the water crisis, and the EPA knew Flint officials “were not warning Flint’s residents that they were being supplied lead-laced water.” Judge Linda Parker of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan said the federal “government is not immune from a lawsuit being filed against them.”

“These lies went on for months while the people of Flint continued to be poisoned,” Parker, an Obama appointee, wrote in her order.

The Detriot News reported three weeks ago that a different federal Judge allowed a major class-action lawsuit over the Flint water contamination against former Gov. Rick Snyder.

Flint residents began complaining about water quality issues shortly after the city switched its water source in April 2014, but Flint and Michigan officials denied any problems until studies from Virginia Tech University researchers and Hurley Medical Center in Flint showed high lead levels in both water and children’s blood.

Judge Parker did not rule on whether federal employees were negligent in addressing Flint’s contaminated water crisis.

Per the Daily Caller:

A federal judge ruled Thursday that Flint citizens can move forward with lawsuits targeting the Environmental Protection Agency’s handling of the Michigan city’s lead contamination problems.

The EPA under former President Barack Obama was too slow to intervene in the case, according to U.S. Judge Linda Parker, who ruled that the federal government was not immune from legal action in the case. More than a dozen lawsuits were filed against Michigan and city officials after researchers discovered in 2016 that Flint’s water contained elevated levels of lead in 2014 and 2015.

“The impact on the health of the nearly 100,000 residents of the City of Flint remains untold,” Parker wrote in her opinion. “It is anticipated, however, that the injury caused by the lead-contaminated public water supply system will affect the residents for years and likely generations to come.”

The EPA knew Flint officials “were not warning Flint’s residents that they were being supplied lead-laced water. Quite to the contrary, the EPA learned that State and local officials were misleading residents to believe that there was nothing wrong with the water supply,” the judge added.

Fifteen state and local officials have been criminally indicted in connection with what many in the media have dubbed a water crisis. Four of the officials were charged with involuntary manslaughter. Much of the controversy happened after Flint switched its water source to the Flint River in 2014 without adding anti-corrosive agents to the water. Lead levels in drinking water supplies increased shortly thereafter.

The federal government did not install their water system, their elected Democrat local government did. The lawyers are just looking for some “deep pockets” to sue because those responsible don’t have any real money. Perhaps they should be glad the EPA was not handling their water supply as they did with the Animas River, that was also under the Obama regime.

Animas River Polluted By Obama’s EPA

 

Flint officials asked the Obama administrations EPA for help, and it only took 18 months for them to respond!

The video below is former president Obama drinking filtered Flint Michigan water. He says it’s filtered,  But I bet it’s not the same kind of filter regular people can buy.

Much of this post was first seen at Godfather Politics

Flint lead water