Tag: West Virginia
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A New Environmentalism for an Unfractured Future
Fracking is the problem that masquerades as a solution. Fracking is the deadly enabler that keeps the whole fossil fuel party going…
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Case Studies Show How Shale Boom Hurt Health and Infrastructure of Four Communities
It’s been nearly a decade since the first shale fracking wells were drilled in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Since that time, there’s been pressure for more gas production in those states, as well as in Ohio, but a series of new studies show that the people who live near the booming industry aren’t always the…
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Grassroots Organizations Mobilize to Meet Community Water Needs Following WV Chemical Spill
By Dana Kuhnline Last month, an estimated 10,000 gallons of the coal-processing chemical MCHM, along with an unknown amount of a second substance called PPH, spilled into West Virginia’s Elk River—just upstream from a municipal water intake that serves nine counties. Freedom Industries, the company responsible for the spill, neglected to report it, despite some…
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In Wake of Elk River Chemical Spill West Virginians Turn to Rainwater Harvesting
By Molly Rusk Some residents of the Kanawha Valley in West Virginia lost access to clean drinking water on Jan. 9, when a coal-processing facility spilled roughly 10,000 gallons of crude MCHM—a chemical used to treat coal—into the Elk River and surrounding land. The spill affected the water supply for more than 300,000 people. The…
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Breaking: Third Coal-Related Spill in the Last Month Contaminates West Virginia Waterway
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is investigating a coal slurry spill, reported to be of “significant” size, from a pipe that ruptured early this morning at the Kanawha Eagle Prep Plant in Kanawha County, WV. The slurry spilled into Fields Creek and has apparently begun to reach the Kanawha River, about 3.5 miles away. [caption id=”attachment_321038″…