When People in Flint Got Sick, the Government Covered It Up
The Flint, Michigan, water crisis is one of the worst human-caused environmental disasters of our era. It was also one of the most egregious cover-ups of our time, with new investigative reporting revealing how politicians scrambled to muzzle sick residents.
Volunteers load bottled water in a truck at the the Sylvester Broome Center in Flint, Michigan, on February 22, 2016. (Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)
The following excerpt is from chapter one of We the Poisoned: Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans by reporter Jordan Chariton. We the Poisoned investigates the government’s efforts to cover up one of the most extreme human-caused environmental disasters in living memory: the contamination of the water supply in working-class Flint, Michigan.
This year marks a decade of the deadly scandal and the government’s continuing corruption — and the people of Flint still don’t have clean water. Chariton interviewed hundreds of Flint residents for We the Poisoned, which took eight years to report. The book exposes the austerity and mismanagement that led to the disaster and reveals the government’s desperate attempts to cover its tracks.
We the Poisoned will be published in August 2024 and features a foreword by Erin Brockovich. Jordan Chariton is an independent reporter and leads the progressive media network Status Coup News.
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