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West Virginia American Water began lifting the "do-not-use" ban in downtown Charleston, and would begin phasing in use of the system's drinking water based upon "priority zones." [9] By the evening of January 13, 15 percent of West Virginia American Water's customers were permitted to begin using the drinking water. [24]
This is a list of Superfund sites in West Virginia designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contamination. [1]
Moreover, DuPont was only required to clean up drinking water in communities where C8 levels exceeded the EPA’s safety limit of 0.4 parts per billion. (A recent study concluded that even this figure may be more than 100 times too high.) The water in Parkersburg, where most of the plaintiffs lived, initially fell just below that threshold.
Environmental impact of fracking in the United States has been an issue of public concern, and includes the contamination of ground and surface water, methane emissions, [1] air pollution, migration of gases and fracking chemicals and radionuclides to the surface, the potential mishandling of solid waste, drill cuttings, increased seismicity and associated effects on human and ecosystem health.
Funding from Arizona Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly's Infrastructure Investment and Jobs law will be used to provide more safe drinking water across the state. Over $32M to go into safe ...
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The lake contains 20 billion US gallons (7.6 × 10 10 litres; 1.7 × 10 10 imperial gallons) of coal ash and smokestack scrubber waste. [2] The northern coast of the lake is only a few hundred meters from the Ohio River, which is the drinking water source for more than three million people.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday formally gave West Virginia authority to oversee carbon capture projects in the state, the fourth state granted such ability. The agency signed ...