Over the past few weeks, the nation has watched in horror at the lead poisoning crisis unfolding in Flint, Michigan.
The details from Flint have been shocking: tap water so corrosive it caused lead levels in some homes to meet the classification for hazardous waste; and politics so corrosive that “while the children in Flint were drinking lead-filled water, there was one — and only one — address in Flint that got clean water: the GM factory.”
