Flint

The officials face prison terms of up to 20 years.

Pain pills, water warnings and finger naps + this day in history w/Nixon Meets Elvis and our song of the day by Samantha Crain on your Morning Monarchy for December 21, 2016.

Flint isn’t the only community with contaminated water.

Marine Corps veteran Nesky Hernandez, center, carries his pack after arriving with fellow veterans at the Oceti Sakowin camp where people have gathered to protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D., Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016.(AP Photo/David Goldman)

The state of Michigan has given a preliminary go-ahead for food and beverage maker Nestle to nearly triple the amount of groundwater it will pump from beneath the state, to be bottled and sold at its Ice Mountain plant, approximately 120 miles from Flint. [1]
Source: mlive.com
Nestle Waters North America asked the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to allow the company to increase pumping from 150 to 400 gallons-per-minute at 1 of its production wells north of Evart.

What many suspected is being proven true by WikiLeaks.

Redefining hurricanes, marketing jerky and arresting statistics + this day in history w/DeLorean arrested and our song of the day by Mr. Little Jeans on your Morning Monarchy for October 19, 2016.

Valeant, a predatory drug company hoping to profit from the growth market in lead poisoning. A name worth remembering (source).by Gaius PubliusAnother tale of price-gouging by the out-of-control andn predatory pharmaceutical industry. This time, the perp is a company called Valeant (get it?

In the midst of the Flint water crisis, a group of students who dubbed themselves the “Dream Kings” from Frederick Douglass Academy in Detroit sought to ensure that the senior citizens of Flint were taken care of: by giving them 300 cases of clean water. The idea was actually thought up entirely by the students, which makes it even more special. [1]

Big soda, SNAP riots and more Portland waterwars + this day in history w/the Magna Carta and our song of the day by Ben Watt on your Morning Monarchy for June 15, 2016.