But Government Regulation Is a Bad Thing, Right?

A second chemical was mixed in with the previously identified MCMH crude that leaked from a storage tank at Freedom Industries chemical company earlier this month and tainted drinking water in a large swathe of West Virginia.

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The chemical spill into the Elk River prompted authorities to impose a ban Jan. 9 on drinking, bathing or even touching water from taps.

Those bans were lifted Jan. 19, but residents this week were still reporting symptoms such as rashes or nausea after coming into contact with the water.

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"It was Freedom's responsibility to let people know there was another chemical in the tank and they did not," Amy Goodwin, the director of communications for Gov. Tomblin, told Al Jazeera.

"At this point there is very limited trust in any of the information that is being provided by Freedom, but the second we found out about it, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Health and Human Resources, the National Guard, and the Office of Homeland Security went out and did testing within the system," Goodwin said.

  

And this is why the EPA is a farce. They let companies do their own testing and providing safety data. It’s like letting the financial institutions provide their own company worth analyses. Only with the industrial sector, instead of bankrupting people, they destroy their health.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.