EPA expected to brief U.S. House committee on Flint water crisis

Reuters
Flint residents pick up bottled water and water filters at a fire station in Flint, Michigan January 13, 2016. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to brief staffers on a House committee on Thursday about contaminated drinking water in Flint, Michigan, a panel aide said. A group of bipartisan lawmakers including Fred Upton, a Republican from Michigan, on the House Energy and Commerce Committee wrote last week to EPA Secretary Gina McCarthy requesting a briefing about high levels of lead in drinking water in Flint, a financially strapped city north of Detroit. (Reporting by Timothy Gardner; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)