Minnesota: "Latest Moose Count Provides Little Good News"
"Minnesota’s moose continued their long decline in 2015."
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, 02/18/2016
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI)
"Ohio EPA Fires Two Over Sebring Contamination"
"The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency fired two employees in its Columbus office on Wednesday, and demoted a third employee in the EPA's northeastern district over lead contamination in the Mahoning County village of Sebring."
Source: Columbus Dispatch, 02/18/2016
Maine Law Hid Threats to Public from Oil Trains
Maine passed a law in 2015 that allowed railroads to keep oil-train routing information from the public — over the governor's veto. In the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting's Pine Tree Watchdog, Dave Sherwood reports how the provision was a bait-and-switch.
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Failure to Disclose Lead Threats in Drinking Water: Widespread Problem
Bad as it is, the Flint drinking water disaster is hardly uncommon. Even though the law requires authorities to tell the public of dangerous levels of lead in drinking water, they often don't.
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"Michigan Legionnaires' Deaths Were Preventable, Official Says"
"Residents of Flint, Michigan, began getting gravely ill and in some cases dying in summer 2014 in one of the worst outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease in U.S. history, and a county health director says attempts to find the source were hampered when the state wouldn't request federal assistance."
Source: CNN, 02/15/2016
"Snyder Ordered DEQ To Withhold Flint Lead Test Results, Emails Claim"
"Gov. Rick Snyder and other state officials allegedly withheld lead testing results from county health officials while they worked to find ways to present the information to the public, according to emails obtained by The Flint Journal."
Source: Flint Journal, 02/11/2016
"City Fails To Warn Chicagoans About Lead Risks In Tap Water"
"More than two years after federal researchers found high levels of lead in homes where water mains had been replaced or new meters installed, city officials still do little to caution Chicagoans about potential health risks posed by work that Mayor Rahm Emanuel is speeding up across the city."
Source: Chicago Tribune, 02/10/2016
"Flint Mayor Hopes To Begin Pipe Replacement Next Month"
"Flint Mayor Karen Weaver on Tuesday outlined an estimated $55-million public works project expected to begin within a month to remove Flint's lead-contaminated pipes from the water distribution system."
Source: Detroit Free Press, 02/10/2016
"Flint E-Mails: CDC Voiced Concerns Over Legionnaires' Actions"
"More than eight months before Gov. Rick Snyder disclosed a deadly Legionnaires' disease outbreak in the Flint area, federal health officials worried a lack of cooperation in Michigan could be hampering the public health response."
Source: Detroit Free Press, 02/10/2016
Emails Reveal Early Suspicions of a Flint Link to Legionnaires’ Disease
"Michigan state officials were aware of an increase in Legionnaires’ disease cases and a possible tie to Flint’s troubled water supply at least 10 months before Gov. Rick Snyder informed the public of the situation last month, newly obtained emails show."
Source: NY Times, 02/08/2016
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