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Audit faults Michigan regulators in Flint water crisis

2016-03-04 18:53:10| Waste Management - Topix.net

The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality made crucial errors as the city of Flint began using a new drinking water source that would become contaminated with lead, but the rules the agency failed to heed may not be strong enough to protect the public, auditors said Friday.

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Audit faults state regulators in Flint crisis

2016-03-04 17:53:06| Waste Management - Topix.net

Auditors say Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality made crucial errors when overseeing a switch in water sources for the city of Flint that resulted in a lead contamination crisis. A state auditor general's report released Friday says department staff failed to require Flint to treat its water with anti-corrosive chemicals when it began drawing from the Flint River in April 2014.

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VIDEO: Supercars can cause a midlife crisis

2016-03-03 14:45:19| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

What is it about about expensive supercars that makes even the soberest of reporters go goggle-eyed? The BBC's Theo Leggett wrestles with his own car-induced midlife crisis at the Geneva Motor Show

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Your Body: Microcephaly at Center of Zika Virus Crisis

2016-03-03 04:49:26| Chemicals - Topix.net

The parents of two Virginia college students who were abducted and murdered years apart spoke out after their daughters' killer accepted a guilty plea in court W... -- Members of the elite Delta Force based in Iraq recently captured a mid-level ISIS operative, the first operation of what will become normal operations for an E... Monsanto Co.

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VW CEO was told about emissions crisis a year before admitting to cheat scandal

2016-03-03 00:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Volkswagens chief executive was told about the companys illegal emissions crisis more than a year before it admitted it was systematically cheating on US regulators tests. The German company admitted on Wednesday that its former CEO Martin Winterkorn was, in May 2014, sent a memo detailing how some VW cars were producing up to 35 times more nitrogen oxide emissions than allowed. In the memo Winterkorn was told about an independent study that found VW cars were producing very high emissions in...

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