EPA’s watchdog urges better water oversight after Flint crisis

July 19th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was slow and ineffective in its response to the 2014 water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and needs to improve its communications with state and local regulators when citizen complaints arise, its internal watchdog said on Thursday. The EPA inspector general said in a 74-page...