WV Chem Site Unmonitored Since ‘91

[DonViejo]

Last edited Mon Jan 13, 2014, 09:45 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: TDB and WSJ

The chemical facility in West Virginia that poisoned drinking water for 300,000 people had not been visited by environmental inspectors since 1991, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday night. The facility owned by Freedom Industries Inc. spilled 7,500 gallons of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol through a one-inch hole in a tank last week. The feds don't inspect most above-ground chemical storage units, and West Virginia had not yet forced Freedom Industries to implement a groundwater protection plan. Too late now.

Read it at Wall Street Journal
January 12, 2014 9:02 PM

###

Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/01/12/no-regulation-of-wv-chemical-site.html

---

[awoke_in_2003]

1. Th invisible hand of the market...

will choke to death as many as it can.

[valerief]

5. +1000

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Isn't this WSJ's unfettered capitalism?

except when they can blame the federal government

[Carolina]

14. Exactly

Starting with Reagan's mantra that "government is the problem" and his quest to deregulate overtly and covertly by appointing such people as James Watt to head the EPA... people whose life work had been the antithesis of the agency they were charged with leading.

Repukes gut fundamental protections, then say see, the government doesn't work. Meanwhile that rag, the WSJ, and other whore media cheer them on. And the sheeple buy this shit and vote against their own best interests. BTW, W Va went for Rmoney... enough said

It's truly sickening

[CreekDog]

17. actually James Watt wasn't appointed to the EPA

he was appointed to head Department of Interior.

i don't say it just to be nitpicky.

i say it so i can mention that the actual people Reagan appointed to run EPA, ended up in prison.

Rita Lavelle, an administrator at the EPA, misused Superfund monies and was convicted of perjury. She served three months in prison, was fined $10,000 and given five years probation.[22]
Anne Gorsuch Burford, the controversial head of the EPA. Burford, citing "Executive Privilege," refused to turn over Superfund records to Congress.[23] She was found in Contempt, whereupon she resigned.

Anne Gorsuch Burford, the controversial head of the EPA. Burford, citing "Executive Privilege," refused to turn over Superfund records to Congress.[23] She was found in Contempt, whereupon she resigned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_administration_scandals#EPA_scandals

[Carolina]

19. Thanks so much for the

correction. They were all bad... what a nightmare your recounting of history evokes. And things are worse now because of that great Reagan legacy

[wordpix]

22. It's the Repuke mantra of "end government regulation"

Well they did it and this is what you get, along with cancer

[calimary]

3. "Freedom Industries." That's certainly tell-tale.

What kind of bullshit name is that? That's what I thought the first time I heard it and I still do. Although I can guess. Evidence of some corporate hack who hates regulations, especially environmental regulations.

[trusty elf]

10. The name is a dead giveaway, isn't it?

[IMG][/IMG]

[Carolina]

15. Yeah

Freedom from oversight and responsibility!

[Iliyah]

4. Unfortunately there will be more disasters

like fracking that will causes earthquakes.

Greedy sobs are destroying this beautiful country.

[wordpix]

23. "Greedy sobs are destroying this beautiful country." Amen to that. America the Beautiful is gone

[Alameda]

6. Interesting, but is there a link that one can actually read?

These require one to log on.

[Recursion]

13. With WSJ you can usually google the title and get a non-walled version

eg,

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303819704579317062273564766?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303819704579317062273564766.html

[Alameda]

18. Great, thanks. The NYT has gotten picky now too.

I do understand they want to make money, but an occasional read???

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

7. There's less EPA inspectors to do the job.

and Congress would be happy to cut back on how many we have now.
That chemical plant that blew up in Texas, next to a school hadn't been inspected since 1985.

[Cha]

8. Oh dear.. the inmates were running

the asylum as they say.

Damn if they only had a safety net. Isn't that what BP oil needed and the Waco Texas Chem Plant that blew?

thanks DV

[Botany]

9. Kind of like the "Big Branch Coal Mine" in WV too

Which had tons of violations but they just kept on producing coal until the mine blew up and killed
29 men. It is sad and funny but the workers and all these Kanawha valley chemical plants and the
W.V. coal miners all tend to vote republican because they see "liberal environmentalists" taking
away their jobs.

BTW the Kanawha Valley area is a hot spot for cancers.

[Brigid]

21. What about "conservative coal operators" taking away their lives?

First Big Branch, now this -- on top of numerous other health and environmental problems over the years, caused by the coal industry. I do not know why the people aren't out in the streets over this.

[SkatmanRoth]

11. "Unmonitored Since '91"

This sounds like the result of Ronald Regan's deregulation policies.

[liberal N proud]

12. Evidence: Less Regulation

Cut or don't enact the environmental regulations and this is what you get!

[underpants]

16. Cross-post:Co. has existed officially for two weeks

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014695992

[Pterodactyl]

20. I blame Governor Caperton.