By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss (AP) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the water in Mississippi's capital city is now safe to drink, following months of sampling at a water treatment plant overwhelmed by late…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, MATTHEW DALY and AARON MORRISON Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced it is investigating whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against the state’s majority-Black capital city by refusing to fund…
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Congress is investigating the crisis that left 150,000 people in Mississippi’s capital city without running water for several days in late summer. Reps. Bennie Thompson, of Mississippi, and Carolyn…
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associates Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss (AP) - Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan has returned to Mississippi’s capital city to meet with Jackson officials about the city’s troubled water system. Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba says…
EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says he wants Mississippi’s capital city to receive “its fair share” of federal money to repair a troubled water system. Homes and businesses had no…
