Flint Crisis: EPA Official Warned Of 'Public Health Disaster' -- Emails

"U.S. EPA officials began discussing worrisome water quality test results found in Flint, Mich., in early 2015, according to emails released by the agency.

EPA yesterday released several records, including more than 5,100 pages of emails and other documents, under the Freedom of Information Act to Greenwire and other news organizations dealing with the agency's response to the drinking water crisis in Flint. EPA has been blasted for its slow response to the Flint disaster, which involved lead and other toxins seeping into the city's water supply.

The records released yesterday paint a picture of an agency taking early note of the problems in Flint that would dominate national headlines later earlier this year."

Tiffany Stecker, Kevin Bogardus, and Sam Pearson report for E&E Daily May 13, 2016.