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Inside Appalachia: EPA May List Minden, Government Shutdown Causes Delays
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:57:47
Publish Date: 2019-01-25 15:47:56
Description: Two years ago, residents of Minden, West Virginia, asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to do more testing and consider the town’s soil and water to be a health and environmental risk in need of another cleanup. Last September, residents received the news that, after analyzing new data, the agency proposed listing Minden on the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL). A final determination was supposed to happen this spring, but the partial government shutdown has pushed that back.
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