Vitter: EPA Refusing to Admit Failures in Flint Water Crisis

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U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-La.) continues to press Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to answer questions about her Agency's gross negligence in the Flint, Michigan water crisis. Vitter's statements are made ahead of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (OGR) hearing today during which EPA Administrator McCarthy and Rick Snyder, Governor of the State of Michigan, will testify on the government's response to the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

"In light of the Obama EPA's complete failure to notify Flint residents for over a year that their water was undrinkable, clearly there is a distinct, pressing need for oversight of and accountability within the Agency. Today's House Oversight Committee hearing should certainly shed some light on the consequences of and rationale behind EPA's failed leadership, which I expect will aid my ongoing investigation into EPA's culpability," said Sen. Vitter.

In February, Vitter, a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), along with EPW Chairman James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas), sent a letter to Administrator McCarthy seeking answers to EPA's lack of transparency and accountability regarding the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan

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