300,000 Were Exposed to a Toxic Chemical in W. Va. the EPA Is Only Investigating Four Months into It

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http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/300000-people-were-exposed-toxic-chemical-w-va-epa-only-investigating-it-four



America doesn’t give a rat’s ass about poor people.

Case in point: what’s going on in West Virginia right now.

Almost four months after 10,000 gallons of a toxic coal-cleaning chemical known as MCHM leaked into the Elk River and poisoned the water supply of hundreds of thousands of West Virginians — the federal government is just now starting to look into what happens to people who inhale that chemical.

Over the next few months, the Environmental Protection Agency — the EPA — will take vapor samples and then try to establish some sort of safe inhalation limit.

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1. This is what happens when corporations run your state.

Coming to a state near you.