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The first congressional inquiry into the Flint water crisis begins this morning on Capitol Hill.
The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold hearing beginning at 9:00 a.m.
The new head of the state’s Department of Environmental Quality and a deputy assistant administrator within the Environmental Protection Agency’s water division are the headliners among those slated to testify.
The Detroit Free Press reports DEQ Chief Keith Creagh will push all of the blame on the EPA for not reporting problems with Flint’s drinking water to the state sooner.
The DEQ and EPA have lobbed accusations back and forth over who should bear the most responsibility for the water crisis.
Also set to testify are U.S. Congressman Dan Kildee, a Flint Democrat, the Virginia Tech professor who first blew the whistle on problems with Flint’s water and Flint resident LeeAnne Walters.
