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The Regulation Failures Behind West Virginia’s Water Crisis

Miles Kampf-Lassin

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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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