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EPA Admits Its Mistakes in Handling Flint Water Situation

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday that it is reviewing its handling of a crisis over lead-contaminated drinking water in the city of Flint, Michigan and admitted that it did not respond fast enough. The agency said in a statement, "Our first priority is to make sure the water in Flint is safe, but we also must look at what the agency could have done differently." Criticism of the state and federal response has increased in recent days over the crisis in Flint, a city of just under 100,000 residents about 60 miles northwest of Detroit. The EPA added that its oversight was hampered "by failures and resistance at the state and local levels to work with us in a forthright, transparent and proactive manner."

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