Former head of environmental protection subpoenaed over Flint water crisis

The U.S. House of Representatives has subpoenaed the former Midwest chief of the Environmental Protection Agency over the Flint, Mich., drinking water crisis.

The panel subpoenaed EPA's Susan Hedman to appear at a deposition in Washington later this month.

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Hedman, who resigned this week, had played down a memo by an EPA employee that said tests had shown high levels of lead in the city's water, telling Flint and Michigan administrators it was only a draft report.

Representative JasonChaffetz, who confirmed the latest subpoenaon Wednesday, is alsohead of the House Oversight panel.

At a hearing on the crisis, he said his panel has also subpoenaed Darnell Earley, who served as Flint's state-appointed city manager when the city switched from Detroit's system to the Flint River for its water supply.