Governor to Testify Before Congressional Hearing

Liz Gullett

Feb 19, 2016

This week the Chairman of the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reforms Committee announced his committee will hold additional hearings on the Flint Water Crisis. Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) stated “We are committed to investigating the failures in Flint. We appreciate Governor Snyder’s willingness to appear before the Committee and look forward to hearing from EPA Administrator McCarthy as well. Their perspectives on this issue are important as we seek to ensure a crisis of this magnitude never occurs in another American city. The diverse and insightful panel of witnesses assembled will shed light on many of our remaining questions and help us propose reforms to the authorizing committees.” While the date for the hearing is yet to be announced, the list of expected witnesses has been released:

Panel I:

Susan Hedman, former Region 5 Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Darnell Earley, former Emergency Manager, City of Flint
Dayne Walling, former Mayor, City of Flint
Marc Edwards, Profess of Environmental and Water Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Miguel Del Toral, Region 5 Water Expert, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Panel II:

Governor Rick Snyder
Gina McCarthy, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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