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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Place-based Watershed Management in West Virginia
Initially upon learning about the mismanagement of the Kanawha River and its surrounding watersheds, I assumed the appropriate strategy would have been to implement some sort of ecosystem-based approach to management. It wasn’t until I
Read moreThe 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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