A decade later, environmental health advocates fear that with the licorice-like stench from the spilled chemicals at Freedom Industries that contaminated drinking water for 300,000 in West Virginia no longer piercing nostrils throughout the Kanawha Valley, water protection could slip further through the cracks.
The 2014 Elk River chemical leak showed West Virginians they d have to fight hard for basic environmental health protections. 10 years after the water crisis, advocacy continues.
The West Virginia legislative session starting next week will feature more of the same goals for environmentalists — greater protection from oil and gas well pollution and cleaner water.
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia legislative session starting this week will feature more of the same goals for environmentalists — greater protection from oil and gas well pollution and cleaner
As of Friday, the House had passed 93 bills; the Senate had passed 103. Only 21 have gone to the governor 12 Senate bills and nine House bills. Senate President Craig Blair talked about his mining mutual insurance company bill before the session began.