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EPA Formally Rejects Calls To Craft CWA Accident Prevention Rule


August 22, 2019 at 06:08 PM
As expected, EPA has formally declined to create new Clean Water Act (CWA) requirements to prevent or contain industrial chemical spills, dismissing calls from state emergency responders and environmentalists, who argued a rule is mandated by law and needed in the wake of a 2014 spill that closed the drinking water system in Charleston, WV.

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