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11.12.24 Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple played a set at TV Eye with Tim Dahl on bass (Child Abuse, Lydia Lunch), and Kevin Shea and Marc Edwards on drums

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11.04.24 Mick Barr and Marc Edwards perform for Abasement at Artist Space on Cortlandt Alley in Lower Manhattan

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From Congressional Hearings to Settlements: Flint’s Decade-Long Fight for Accountability

A Tale of Two Reckonings On March 15, 2016, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform convened a critical hearing in Washington, spotlighting the dramatic failures that led to the Flint water disaster. Now, nearly nine years later, a $53 million settlement from Veolia closes—at least legally—the chapter on what local residents have called a “city poisoned.” 🎥 Video Clip 1:…

From Congressional Hearings to Settlements: Flint’s Decade-Long Fight for Accountability

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They helped expose unsafe lead levels in Flint’s and in D.C.’s water. Then they turned on each other.

The rift is the subject of a lawsuit filed by Virginia Tech professor Marc Edwards against three activists he worked with.

“Edwards and his team had continued testing the water, and their results showed that lead levels were falling in line with federal standards — matching what the government was finding. By August 2016, both he and Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician who is also credited with raising the alarm about lead in Flint’s water, were saying publicly that the situation in Flint was improving.

But that narrative contradicted the perspective of advocates and groups such as Water Defense, an environmental nonprofit started by actor Mark Ruffalo, which brought in its own expert to sample the water in Flint. The group announced in February 2016 that it had found “harmful chemicals … appearing at levels that often approach or exceed drinking water standards.”

Edwards railed against Ruffalo for needlessly scaring residents. “A-List Actor but F-List Scientist: Mark Ruffalo Brings Fear and Misinformation to Flint” was the title of a May 16, 2016, post on Edwards’s blog at flintwaterstudy.org. He criticized the findings and methods, and the lead investigator for Water Defense later admitted he overstated the dangers of the water. (Water Defense did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)”

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Marc Edwards seminar for undergrad researchers will explore the prelude to Flint

Years before the Flint water crisis made national news, Marc Edwards worked with Washington, D.C., residents to expose even more severe lead pollution in the drinking water in the nation’s capital. Edwards, the Charles P. Lunsford Professor of civil and environmental engineering in the College of Engineering and a University Distinguished Professor, will discuss how those events foreshadowed the…

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The Daily Show Season 22 - Episode 92: Marc Edwards AirDate: April 19th, 2017, 11:00 PM