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Why does W. Va. want MORE toxic water pollution?
It wasn’t that long ago when the issue of water pollution in West Virginia was front-page national news. You may remember the incident that happened just over three years ago, in January 2014, involving a company called Freedom Industries. To paraphrase the old Janice Joplin song, “freedom” was just another word, in this case, for corporate neglect. A holding tank filled with crude 4-methylcyclohexanemethanol, a highly toxic chemical used to wash [...]
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