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DISASTERS: CHEMICAL SPILLS :
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UNITED STATES: STATES: WEST VIRGINIA :
MEDICAL: DISESASES: CANCER, DIABETES:
Why the West Virginia Spill Wasn't a Freak Occurrence
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Why the West Virginia Spill Wasn't a Freak Occurrence
June 4, 2014
by Molly M. Ginty
Moyers and Company
http://billmoyers.com/2014/06/04/
why-the-west-virginia-spill-wasnt-a-freak-occurrence/
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Each 99-cent jug further strains a budget already stretched thin by the
cost of raising two children as a single mother with student loan debt.
Each gallon adds to the $700 Changa has already spent due to the spill,
without any government reimbursement. So far, Changa has forked out $300
on bottled water, $250 on prepared foods, and $150 for gas to leave town
and shower at the homes of friends. Every penny will be worth it as long
as we dont get sick again, says Changa, referring to the breathing
problems, headaches and upset stomachs that she, her 10-year-old son and
her 12-year-old daughter suffered in the spills immediate wake.
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In early May, many Charleston residents were, like Changa, still bathing,
scrubbing their dishes or washing their clothes using nothing but bottled
water. Though MCHM levels have supposedly dropped to those deemed safe by
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), residents know that
the government has done only limited research on MCHMs health dangers.
While the American Association of Poison Control Centers has determined
that MCHM can spur vomiting, dizziness, headaches, diarrhea and skin
irritation, authorities have yet to establish where MCHM accumulates in
the human body and whether it is carcinogenic. And the CDCs safety
thresholds only take into account the cocktails main ingredient, 4-MCHM.
Researchers have yet to examine the health effects of its other five
ingredients in detail.
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Until we know more, Im not taking any chances, Changa says.
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Charleston residents are baffled and indignant that MCHM leached into
their water so easily. (We want answers, read one placard at a protest at
the state capitol building. Prosecute the poisoners, read another.) But
the spill in West Virginia was not a freak occurrence. The United States
sees more than its share of industrial accidents. Consider the 2008 spill
of 1 billion gallons of coal-ash slurry in Kingston, Tennessee, which
coated the surrounding land in a 6-foot-deep layer of sludge that cost an
estimated $1.2 billion to clean up. Or the 2013 ammonium nitrate explosion
at a West, Texas, fertilizer plant. That catastrophe at a facility that
federal inspectors had not visited for 27 years injured more than 300
people and claimed 15 lives.
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No single government agency is responsible for tracking and verifying
chemical spills, so their exact number is unknown. But the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) puts the figure at thousands
each year, while Bloomberg Businessweek counted 3,885 in 2013 and CBS
identified more than 6,500 in 2010.
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When chemicals like MCHM are spilled, say experts, it adds to the stew of
synthetic substances already polluting our environment. The CDC has found
that on average, US citizens have detectable levels of 212 synthetic
chemicals in their blood or urine. And experts say its no surprise that
breast cancer and diabetes, both of which are linked to pollution, have
doubled in incidence over the past 50 years.
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