Items Tagged with 'Flint water crisis'

There are several times in their work lives when journalists try to say something important to readers—and one of those for ENR editorial staff is the profile of the annual Award of Excellence winner,

Engineering firm agrees to $53-million settlement of lawsuit brought by Michigan Attorney General on behalf of 26,000 Flint residents over the city's water lead contamination crisis. 

Officials in the upstate New York city say they have made replacing lead lined drinking water pipes a top priority. 

The engineering firm said officials largely ignored its recommendations while working for the city after the lead-in-water crisis had already begun.

Terms were not disclosed of the civil settlement with plaintiffs, but it "will allow LAN to put this matter behind them and focus on their future," an attorney says.

A Michigan court judge granted final approval of the mostly state-funded settlement with many young plaintiffs in tainted water case, but two engineering firms are not part of the agreement.

The city missed its court-approved deadline last fall, and an unclear amount of work remains ahead of a new one set for August.

Engineering firm inked confidential settlements with four child plaintiffs ahead of a February retrial in the case over the 2014-2015 Flint, Mich., lead-in-water crisis.

As legal theater, the long trial of two engineering firms for their role in the Flint, Mich., water crisis ended with a thud.