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What I remember about Flint water crisis was how state government lied
Opinion: I covered the Flint water crisis. State officials worked to dodge blame, not to repair harms.
Powerful, because of the efforts of brave Flint residents to tell the truth about the end point of absolute systemic failure, and because of the reporting undertaken by a handful of dedicatedjournalists at a slew of statewideorganizations. A state spokesman described a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency water expert as a "rogue employee," and a Virginia Tech scientist as some sort of flim-flam artist. That part about “severe reservations” was simply untrue — emails revealed after the crisis broke made it plain that state officials were fine with the switch, even in the face of evidence suggesting it would cost more to use river water.
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