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      <title>People can start receiving their money from the Flint water settlement starting Friday</title>
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      <description>People in Flint should start receiving letters in the mail this week informing them how much money they will receive from the Flint water settlement fund.</description>
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      <description>A new study finds the U-S Environmental Protection Agency underestimated the benefits of a major revision to the federal lead and copper rule.</description>
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      <description>Effort part of state mandate of being lead-free by 2040.</description>
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      <description>Activists want a federal judge to impose a new deadline on the city of Flint to finish replacing lead service lines.Pipes connecting homes and businesses to city water mains were a main source of lead leaching into Flint’s drinking water during the city’s water crisis.Replacing aging lead and galvanized service lines has been a priority in the wake of the crisis. The job is about 95% complete.</description>
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      <title>Federal judge orders extension to Flint water settlement claims deadline</title>
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      <description>A federal judge has given Flint residents more time to file a claim for a share of a $626-million-dollar legal settlement tied to the Flint water crisis.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2022 02:41:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Former Flint Emergency Manager appeared in a federal courtroom</title>
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      <description>Former Flint Emergency Manager Gerald Ambrose appeared briefly in a federal courtroom today.</description>
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      <title>Federal jury will hear from reluctant witness in civil trial lawsuit involving Flint Water Crisis</title>
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      <description>A federal jury tomorrow will hear from a reluctant witness in a civil lawsuit involving the Flint water crisis.</description>
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      <title>Federal judge says she will decide on requests by former Gov. Rick Snyder and others not to testify at Flint water civil trial</title>
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      <description>Lawyers for former Gov. Rick Snyder and four others made their case to a judge Tuesday for them not to testify at a civil trial related to the Flint water crisis.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2022 18:53:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A federal trial is underway to decide if engineering firms that advised the city of Flint on water issues bear responsibility for the water crisis.</title>
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      <description>A federal trial is underway to decide if engineering firms that advised the city of Flint on water issues bear some responsibility for the water crisis.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 23:43:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lead in Flint water drops to 3 parts-per-billion</title>
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      <description>Flint continues to make progress in reducing lead in its drinking water.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2021 21:54:51 GMT</pubDate>
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