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  2. 2014 Elk River chemical spill - Wikipedia

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    The Elk River chemical spill occurred on January 9, 2014, when crude 4-Methylcyclohexanemethanol (MCHM) was released from a Freedom Industries facility into the Elk River, a tributary of the Kanawha River, in Charleston in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

  3. List of Superfund sites in West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Blaine Island - Wikipedia

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    Blaine Island is an island on the Kanawha River in the city of South Charleston, West Virginia. It is roughly 66 acres (270,000 m 2) in area with a length of 1.25 miles and about 900 feet at its widest point. Blaine Island serves as the South Charleston Manufacturing Site for the Union Carbide Corporation, a subsidiary of the Dow Chemical Company.

  5. Washington Works - Wikipedia

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    Washington Works, officially named Chemours Washington Works and previously DuPont Washington Works is a plastics factory in West Virginia, United States.. The factory was opened by DuPont chemical company in 1948 and ownership transferred to Chemours in 2015 as DuPont restructured.

  6. Nitro, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Nitro is a city in Kanawha and Putnam counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It takes its name from a World War I era nitrocellulose plant. The population was 6,618 according to the 2020 census. [2] It is part of the Charleston metropolitan area.

  7. New EPA rule says 218 US chemical plants must reduce toxic ...

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    More than 200 chemical plants nationwide will be required to reduce toxic emissions that are likely to cause cancer under a new rule issued Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

  8. Researchers find higher levels of dangerous chemical than ...

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    The study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University raises new health concerns for communities that sit among the chemical plants lining a stretch of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge ...

  9. Charleston, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    In 1935, Morris Harvey College relocated to Charleston from Barboursville, West Virginia. [26] A chemical plant near Charleston in 1939. Charleston Municipal Auditorium was completed in 1939. [15] During World War II, the first and largest styrene-butadiene plant in the U.S. opened in nearby Institute, providing a replacement for rubber to the ...

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