[CPEO-BIF] Minden, West Virginia

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA official blew off scheduled meeting with toxic Appalachian coal town
Albert Kelly stays behind in Washington to deal with fallout from Scott Pruitt controversies.

by MARK HAND
Think Progress
April 6, 2018

On Thursday night, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt’s point person for the EPA’s Superfund program failed to show up at a scheduled meeting with residents of a West Virginia town contaminated by toxic chemicals.

Albert Kelly, senior adviser for the agency’s Superfund program, stayed behind in Washington to help Pruitt deal with the fallout from the barrage of controversiesfacing the administrator. Instead, the EPA sent Kelly’s top assistant, Nick Falvo, to Minden, West Virginia, to hear from residents about why they believe the town should be placed on the Superfund program’s National Priorities List (NPL).

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Minden is a town struggling with toxic contamination from PCBs - polychlorinated biphenyls, a highly toxic industrial chemical - that were stored at an old equipment site starting in the 1960s and later dumped in an abandoned mine. Minden is now a toxic wasteland where residents are afraid to drink the water and let their children play in their yards. Residents fear the PCBs are making them sick and killing them.

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For the entire article, see
https://thinkprogress.org/epa-superfund-official-visits-minden-west-virginia-63704c2946d4/

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