Poison On Tap : How Government Failed Flint, And The Heroes Who Fought Back
Mission Point Press
ISBN13:
9781943995080
$21.78
The most valuable and illuminating account yet of the Flint water crisis. It took more than a year for the truth to finally, painfully emerge - that Flint, Mich., residents had been drinking lead-poisoned water despite months of complaints about foul smells, discoloration and, worse, ill children. Based on the award-winning journalism of Bridge Magazine, "Poison on Tap" provides a riveting, authoritative, in-depth account of the government blunders, mendacity and arrogance that produced the water crisis in Flint: How state-appointed emergency managers put cost-cutting ahead of public safety. How state experts misinterpreted basic safeguards, while federal regulators dithered for months about warning the public. How a governor missed the many red flags. And how a series of heroes refused to accept the pat dismissals of government agencies, needling and fighting until their voices were heard. "Poison on Tap" is a compelling case study in how government at all levels can go very wrong - and yet shows the power of the human spirit to overcome. "Sometimes truth is stranger and scarier than fiction-such is the case with the Flint Water Crisis. Bridge Magazine staff painstakingly document one of the most significant cases of environmental injustice in U.S. history." -Marc Edwards, Virginia Tech professor whose work helped prove that the regulators were wrong"
- | Author: Bridge Magazine
- | Publisher: Mission Point Press
- | Publication Date: Jun 01, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 330 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1943995087
- | ISBN-13: 9781943995080
- Author:
- Bridge Magazine
- Publisher:
- Mission Point Press
- Publication Date:
- Jun 01, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 330 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1943995087
- ISBN-13:
- 9781943995080