Love Canal, New York; Cuyahoga River, Ohio; Times Beach, Missouri; Hopewell, Virginia; Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania. These are the sites of some of the worst environmental contamination in our nation's history. Each of these disasters drew significant public...
Month: February 2014
Community Struggling to Recover from Chemical Spill in West Virginia
For much of West Virginia, the start of the New Year brought anything but "good tidings."On January 9, 2014, approximately 10,000 gallons of the hazardous chemical substance 4-methylcyclohexane methanol ("MCHM") leaked from a storage tank and flowed into the Elk...