A report from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of the Inspector General strongly criticizes the local, state and federal government’s response to the Flint water crisis in 2015 and 2016. The report says that the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality failed to comply to two Lead and Copper Rule requirements, was slow to respond to known problems with the water, and that the EPA issued an emergency order seven months after it had the “authority and sufficient information” to do so.