Miguel Del Toral
Miguel Del Toral
The more emails that come out, the more we see evidence of government incompetence and indifference in the Flint water crisis.
A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency messagel shows the agency’s Midwest whistle-blower, Region 5’s Regulations Manager Miguel Del Toral, pleaded with superiors to protect Flint residents from lead contamination and railed against their failure to do so, Jim Lynch writes for The Detroit News
In the June 2015 email, Del Toral, hailed as a Flint water crisis hero, describes the EPA as “a cesspool” for officials’ reluctance to act, the News reports. Del Toral even asked his superiors for permission to do additional water testing in Flint and pay for it himself, the paper reports.
“Sorry for the rant, but I am really getting tired of the bad actors being ignored, and people trying to do the right thing are constantly being subjected to intense scrutiny as if we were doing something wrong,” he wrote.
