Emails: Michigan Officials Initially Belittled Claims of Toxic Water in Flint

Newly released emails from the Michigan governor's office show officials in the central U.S. state initially belittled claims that residents in the impoverished city of Flint were being poisoned by lead that had seeped into its water supply. One top aide to Michigan Governor Rick Snyder said the complaints about the city's brownish water supply drawn from the Flint River were coming from an "anti-everything group." Other critics of a lack of state assistance for...

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