Flint water crisis: Senate passes bill funding removal of lead-tainted pipes

But environmentalists raise concerns about measure in bill reducing protections on California's Bay-Delta estuary amid 'partisan games'

In some of its last business of the year, the Senate on Friday passed a bill that included $170m in funding to remove lead-tainted pipes from the water supply in Flint, Michigan.

Environmentalists were concerned, however, about a "poison pill" in the legislation which rolled back environmental protections in California's Bay-Delta estuary.