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From: Alex MG7/9/2014 1:44:24 PM
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Whopping $11,000 Fine In West Virginia Water Poisoning Will Surely Make Polluters Think Twice

by Doktor Zoom




In a stirring victory for environmental justice, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has slapped Freedom Industries — the company that leaked toxic coal-washing fluid into West Virginia’s Elk River and rendered the water unsafe for over 300,000 people — with an enormous pair of fines that will teach other companies a real lesson about unsafe chemical storage. In another example of Big Government running roughshod over private industry, OSHA body-slammed the company with

a $7,000 fine for keeping chemicals in diked areas that were not “liquid tight.”

The administration fined Freedom an addition $4,000 for not providing employees with a proper hand railing to walk over the storage dikes.

We bet Freedom Industries is real sorry they were so lax on the whole safety thing now. READ MORE »
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