Well, well, well.
Maybe I should figure better late than never, but that is small consolation when
your drinking water has smelled like licorice and made you nauseated and gave you
headaches for weeks.
The
National Institute of Health, specifically the National Toxicology Program at
the NIH, announced that they will conduct extensive tests on the health effects
of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, the coal cleaning substance that spilled into the Elk River in West
Virginia back in January and poisoned the drinking water for 300,000 residents.
I’m
glad that the NIH is doing its job, but it is unsettling that this announcement
comes six months after the Elk River spill. It’s actually unsettling that MCHM, which has been used by the coal industry for decades, hadn’t been
tested long ago.
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| The glass is half full and long overdue to be tested for toxicity |
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