The decision comes as legislators prepare to override the governor’s veto of a bill that would spell out the right to seek medical monitoring of industrial pollutants.
A group of Democratic West Virginia lawmakers announced plans Monday to introduce legislation to regulate a group of toxic, man-made fluorinated chemicals.
A preliminary investigation found high levels of perfluorinated chemicals on a property that was home to generations of Decatur city middle school students.
The brain-harming metal is discharged directly into the river and carried to it on air currents. Some argue authorities are doing too little to stop both routes of pollution.
