Tag: freedom industries
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New Survey Shows Many Sickened After West Virginia Chemical Spill
from latimes.com: When a storage tank spilled an obscure coal-cleaning chemical into the water supply in West Virginia in January, officials ultimately told 300,000 people not to use the water. Charleston was the largest city affected, as well as the source of the spill. And according to a recent survey of about 500 people in…
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Water Crisis Not Over After West Virginia Chemical Spill
from hereandnow.wbur.org: It’s been called one of the most serious episodes of drinking water contamination in U.S. history. Four months after thousands of gallons of the coal-washing chemical MCHM spilled from an unregulated above-ground storage tank into the Elk River, many people in and around Charleston, West Virginia, are still using bottled water. Water bans…
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Tests Show Chemical in West Virginia Water Weeks After Leak
from cnn.com: Tap water testing in 10 homes in West Virginia found a chemical that leaked from an industrial storage facility in January was still in the water supply a month later, though at levels within the state’s allowable threshold… “Water is continually flowing through the system and it’s cleaning it out,” said Andrew Whelton,…
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West Virginia Tap Water Test Results Expected In 1-3 Weeks
from edition.cnn.com: Tap water test results in 10 West Virginia homes — part of a state-commissioned study into whether the water is safe to drink after a chemical spill last month — will be known in one to three weeks, scientists leading the effort said Friday. The project also is close to assembling a panel…
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Rockefeller: “I Wouldn’t Drink That Water If You Paid Me”
WV Residents Still Wary of Water After Chemical Leak from thelead.blogs.cnn.com: It was a half-day for the students at Grandview Elementary in North Charleston, West Virginia, Monday, and it wasn’t in observance of George Washington’s birthday. Teachers at the school reported smelling a licorice-like chemical odor this morning, a lingering problem since last month’s chemical…
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More Gunk Spills in West Virginia, Turning Creek Black
Patriot Coal Prep Plant Spills Slurry Into WV Creek* from latimes.com: State officials in West Virginia were trying Tuesday to contain a coal slurry spill into a creek in the same general area where a toxic chemical spill last month tainted drinking water for 300,000 people in and around the state capital of Charleston. A…
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Students Sent Home From West Virginia Schools Amid Fears Over Water Contamination
from nationaljournal.com: Students at a handful of schools in Charleston, W.Va., were sent home last week amid reports of potential water contamination following a chemical spill last month, The New York Times reports. Students were told to leave after students and faculty noticed the smell of licorice, a distinct odor given off by the chemical…
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West Virginia official says residents are breathing cancer-causing agent after chemical spill
from blacklistednews.com: A West Virginia state official told legislators on Wednesday that he “can guarantee” some residents are breathing in a cancer-causing substance due to the chemical spill that occurred earlier in January. In a recent meeting with a state legislative committee on water resources, Scott Simonton of the West Virginia Environmental Quality Board said…
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Chemical Spill In West Virginia Worse Than Initially Reported
from huffingtonpost.com: The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection issued an update on Monday evening indicating that the Elk River spill in West Virginia earlier this month involved more gallons of chemicals than previously reported. Freedom Industries, which owned the tank that leaked into a river supplying water in the state, now says that approximately…
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How safe is West Virginia water, if pregnant women shouldn’t drink it?
from cnn.com: Days after they told some West Virginia residents they shouldn’t worry about drinking tap water contaminated with a chemical used to clean coal, local health officials issued a new advisory this week. Pregnant women, they suggested, might want to stick to drinking bottle water. In new guidance issued Wednesday night, West Virginia health…
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Freedom Industries Cited at Second West Virginia Site
from ksdk.com: The company whose spill contaminated the water supply for 300,000 West Virginians has been cited for violations at a second facility where it’s storing chemicals. Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Tom Aluise says inspectors found five violations Monday at a Nitro site where Freedom Industries moved its coal-cleaning chemicals after Thursday’s spill. Inspectors…

