Energy and Environment

Bipartisan outrage at hearing on water crisis

By Kyle Feldscher
Published February 3, 2016 7:41pm ET
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Bipartisan outrage at hearing on water crisis
The House Oversight committee, including Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the top Democrat on the committee, slammed officials who failed to keep lead out of the water in Flint, Mich. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) | J. Scott Applewhite

Lawmakers turned up the outrage in the first congressional hearing about the lead water debacle in Flint, Mich., as a crowd full of residents from the eastern Michigan city looked on.

During a four-hour hearing Wednesday, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee took shots at those who failed to keep lead from leaching from pipes and into the drinking water. Among them was Michigan’s top environmental official and the top drinking water official at the Environmental Protection Agency.

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