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Mich. environmental official: Water crisis ‘overplayed’

By Kyle Feldscher
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Mich. environmental official: Water crisis ‘overplayed’

A Michigan regulator told investigators the lead-contaminated water crisis in Flint was a creation of health officials in the city and was overblown.

Jim Sygo, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality’s chief deputy director, told investigators the lead water crisis is “overplayed” and “more created than anything else” by Flint officials, the Flint Journal reported Wednesday.

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