Mother Jones
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This story originally appeared on the Huffington Post and is republished here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The 300,000 residents of nine West Virginia counties affected by last Thursday’s chemical spill are slowly starting to get notice that they can turn on their taps again. But many are still wondering why they didn’t have more information about the potential dangers in their own backyard.
As much as 7,500 gallons of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol (also known as crude MCHM) spilled into the Elk River about a mile and a half upstream from where the West Virginia American Water utility draws its supply. The coal-cleaning chemical came from a storage facility owned by Freedom Industries and located in Charleston, the state capital.
Continued here:
West Virginia Spill Exposes Disturbing Lack of Data About Hazardous Chemicals
