After decades of suffering environmental torture at the hands of polluting industries, West Virginians might regard a chemical spill that poisoned the drinking water of 300,000 residents — and is still scaring folks after the dangers have presumably passed — as a last straw. But there never seems to be a last straw for them. Though some state legislators have called for reforming the states famously lax regulations, the general response has been to yell at the media and outsiders.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:00:27 +0000