The Regulation Failures Behind West Virginia’s Water Crisis

Miles Kampf-Lassin

In These Times staff writer Mike Elk appears on Democracy Now to discuss the holes in state and federal regulation behind the chemical spill in West Virginia that left 300,000 residents without access to clean drinking water. He is joined by Erin Brockovich.

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Miles Kampf-Lassin, a graduate of New York University’s Gallatin School in Deliberative Democracy and Globalization, is a Web Editor at In These Times. Follow him on Twitter @MilesKLassin

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