A judge has dismissed a federal class-action lawsuit against Union Carbide seeking medical monitoring damages in response to emissions of carcinogenic ethylene oxide from chemical manufacturing operations in South Charleston, West Virginia. Ethylene oxide has driven up the area s cancer risk.
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Scott Simonton, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at Marshall University, said drums of industrial waste buried in the Filmont landfill present an 'alarming' risk to the environment.
One of the most dangerous chemical plants in America sits in one of West Virginia’s only majority-Black communities. For decades, residents of Institute have raised alarms about air pollution. They say concerns have “fallen on deaf ears.”