Minden WV Residents Wonder Why EPA, State Won't Help W. PCB Contamination

[hatrack]

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For the last 18 months, residents in the Fayette County community have pleaded with state and federal regulators to put their community on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund National Priorities List for heightened levels of PCBs — chemicals linked to cancers and reproductive issues. Getting on the list would make Minden eligible for more funds and cleanup.

The chemicals were banned by the federal government in 1979 and first found in Minden in 1984. Since then, the EPA has come and gone, hoping to clean up the community. But federal regulators can’t make a decision about the NPL until they complete more testing in the community. And until then, the EPA’s hands are tied, Cosmo Servido, administrator for the EPA’s Region 3, said Thursday night. “We have to work within our regulatory authority,” he said Thursday at a listening session with Minden residents at the New Beginning Apostolic Church on McKinney Road.

Like the last few similar listening meetings, residents told officials not enough was being done, and talked about their relatives and friends whose health was affected by PCBs. Thursday, fewer residents came to the church, which had been filled in the past.

“We get tired of telling the story again to all these folks,” Susie Worley-Jenkins, who lives in Minden, said Thursday.

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https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/minden-residents-growing-frustrated-with-epa/article_b2bc3b40-2381-59be-9630-67edf577886a.html

I wonder if this has anything to do with the overall lack of reaction:

Fayette County Results
General Election - November 8 2016
Official Results

Donald J. Trump - 67.53%
Hillary R. Clinton - 27.97%
Gary Johnson - 2.89%
Jill Stein - 1.17%
Darrelll Castle - 67

http://services.sos.wv.gov/apps/elections/results/results.aspx?year=2016&eid=23&county=Fayette

[MyOwnPeace]

1. I'm sure Pruitt's on the case............

that is, if they're looking for hand lotion or used mattresses! otherwise, I'm thinking the EPA (protection? HA!) is probably printing posters that say, "PCB's are bad for you. Stay away - or use some lotion to feel better!"

[blueinredohio]

2. They wanted Trump in there and sadly sometimes you have to suffer the consequences