A recently leaked email from 2008 reveals that an official from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) attempted to fake the results of lead tests conducted on the Michigan water supply, in order for the water to be declared safe for public consumption. Adam Rosenthal tried to artificially lower the lead count numbers in an official report, so that the community would not have to be notified about the danger drinking water posed to their health. Truthdig.com reports: The email was sent in response to a test result that showed one home’s lead levels were ten times the federal action level of 15 parts per billion, and urged the lead test technician to take an additional set of water samples to “bump out” the high result so that the MDEQ wouldn’t be required to notify the community of the high levels of lead in its water. “Otherwise we’re back to water quality parameters and lead public notice,” complained Adam Rosenthal of the MDEQ’s Drinking Water office in the email. “Oh my gosh, I’ve never heard [it] more black and white,” said Marc Edwards, a Virginia Tech professor and lead expert who helped uncover the crisis, to the Guardian. “In the Flint [...]