As of March 17th, the West Virginia Testing Assessment Project (hereafter referred to as WV TAP) published a preliminary document detailing possible health effects for the three chemicals that were hazardously spilled into the water
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The EPA Takes Action – Too Little, Too Late?
With two major contamination events occurring within miles of the Charleston, WV in as many months, residents have been left without clean drinking water. After a chemical accident in 2008, The United States Chemical Safety Board
Read moreHow Dangerous is MCHM?
On January 9, 2014, roughly 10,000 gallons of a chemical known as methylcyclohexane methanol (MCHM) leaked into the Elk River, leaving 300,000 people in West Virginia without drinking water. The contaminant leaked out of a
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In April of 2009, an explosion at Bayer CropScience in Institute, West Virginia left two employees dead, six sickened and many concerned. The explosion turned everyone’s attention to the policy’s, or lack there of, regarding
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The recent chemical spill in West Virginia that is affecting hundreds of thousands of people is becoming a sticky situation. There was a spill that lead into the Kanawha river in January 2014, and there
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