Federal officials defended the city's decision to empty West Calumet beginning Friday, March 31, despite objections from remaining residents and their lawyers.

The report emphasizes projects to ensure clean water for residents.

The same group that requested federal assistance for Flint, Michigan, is now stepping in for East Chicago, Indiana.

Families who remain in lead-contaminated public housing on April 1 could be moved somewhere temporary while they keep looking for permanent housing.

East Chicago residents in the West Calumet Housing Complex have until March 1 to renew their Section 8 housing vouchers, given out late last year.

The West Calumet Housing Complex will be torn down soon. But how the soil is remediated will determine the future of the lead and arsenic-contaminated site.

Gov. Eric Holcomb visits East Chicago, Indiana, a week after declaring an emergency in the city due to lead and arsenic contamination.

Residents have until March 31 to move out of a contaminated housing complex. After that date, the city says remaining residents will be involuntarily relocated.

The order is "focused on helping to relocate nearly 100 residents who remain" at West Calumet Housing Complex, which is slated to be torn down in the spring.

Lawmakers in the House environmental affairs committee unanimously approved the bill.