203. Dr Marc Edwards on Exposing the Flint Water Crisis

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🗓️ 20 April 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In today’s episode, host Marc Clair is joined by Dr. Marc Edwards, the civil engineer who led the study which exposed dangerously high levels of lead in the water in Flint, Michigan. Before we dig into his work in Flint, Dr. Edwards explains why he first pursued the field of civil engineering, with the idea that he could help people with little foreseeable incentive to pursue an unethical path. He then touches on his first encounter with a government cover-up of a water supply in Washington, D.C., and then gets into his most recent work on the Flint crisis. Dr. Edwards breaks down the events which lead to the poisoning of the water in Flint, and why it took [...] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Last year, Amazon was the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable energy.
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0:29.6	The people we pay to protect us with no profit motive whatsoever poisoned entire cities.
0:46.7	Welcome to the Lions of Liberty podcast. Here's your host, your guide, your shining beacon of liberty, Mark Clare.
0:52.7	Situations, my Liberty friends. Welcome back to Lions of Liberty, your home for great conversations about the ideas of Liberty.
1:00.0	This is episode number 203.
1:03.0	You can find the show notes for today's show over at Lions of Liberty.com slash 203.
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1:25.0	My guest today is the Charles P. Lunsford, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech.
1:31.7	He's been a key figure in exposing something that frankly transcends political ideology.
1:37.0	It's a crisis we've all heard about in the news over the last few months, and that is the Flint water crisis.
1:42.0	I am pleased to welcome in Dr. Mark Edwards. Dr. Edwards,
1:45.3	welcome to Lions of Liberty. Thank you for having me. Oh, it's pleased to speak with you,
1:50.1	Dr. Edwards. And, you know, I don't know how many people have heard your name associated with this,
1:54.3	because the headline is, as always, Flint water crisis, but you really are one of the key figures
1:58.1	that explodes what's going on there in Flint and what has happened to the water there.
2:01.7	And we'll get into more detail on that in a minute.
2:04.0	But I want to learn first a little bit more about where you're coming from.
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