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Flint's water crisis is a blatant example of environmental injustice

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imageTap water in Flint's hospital on October 16Joyca Zhu/Flint Water Study

Many observers see race and class as factors in Flint, Michigan’s drinking water crisis. Earlier this week Flint’s mayor, Karen Weaver, said, “It’s a minority community. It’s a poor community. And our voices were not heard.” We asked Robert D....

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