FLINT, MI -- U.S. Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet says the federal government needs to acknowledge its oversight failures during the Flint water crisis and start negotiating a settlement with city residents.

“The (Environmental Protection Agency) failed to keep children and families safe during the water crisis,” the Bay City Democrat said in a statement to MLive-The Flint Journal. “It is outrageous that a decade has passed without the EPA admitting its mistake and paying the citizens of Flint what they are owed.

“The EPA Administrator (Lee Zeldin) should settle this lawsuit right now.”

McDonald Rivet’s comments come in the same week that U.S. District Court Judge Linda V. Parker denied the EPA’s third request to dismiss consolidated Flint water crisis lawsuits brought against it by Flint

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