A West Virginia website will provide information and online registration for aboveground storage tank owners to comply with a new law. The site explains the law written in response to a January chemical spill. The Department of Environmental Protection estimates …
Restaurants and storefronts are buzzing again in West Virginia’s capital city, but many still can’t recoup money lost while they shut down after a January chemical spill. Businesses have sued companies tied to the spill, tried to collect insurance claims …
Health officials say they can’t definitively prove hundreds of West Virginians experienced health effects from contact with a chemical spilled into the water supply. Symptoms in 369 medical records were consistent with studies on spilled crude MCHM. But officials said …
The company at the center of a chemical spill into 300,000 West Virginians’ drinking water submitted plans Wednesday to demolish its facility. Freedom Industries sent the state Department of Environmental Protection plans to decommission its Charleston tanks. Under an order …
The West Virginia company at the center of a January chemical spill is hiring experts to preserve emails and phone records for ongoing investigations. In bankruptcy court Tuesday, Freedom Industries received approval to hire Vestige Ltd. for about $42,500 to …
Federal officials are denying West Virginia’s request for emergency grants to help nonprofits and public agencies that responded to last month’s chemical spill. FEMA said Wednesday that it determined additional federal assistance isn’t warranted because certain costs associated with response …
Two West Virginia government agencies were accused in a court filing Friday of ignoring steps that could have taken to prevent last month’s chemical spill which tainted the drinking water supply for residents in nine counties. The emergency petition filed …
The company behind a chemical spill that contaminated the water supply of 300,000 people now estimates some 10,000 gallons of chemicals leaked, up from an earlier figure of 7,500 gallons, state regulators said Monday. West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection …
West Virginia’s governor on Saturday ordered the company at the center of a chemical spill that tainted the state capital’s water supply to remove all above-ground storage tanks from the Charleston operation. A statement released by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s …