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What The Media Covered Instead of the WV Chemical Spill

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"As over 300,000 people in West Virginia face a fourth day without water, state environmental officials are now estimating that as much as 7,500 gallons of a chemical used to process coal — Crude MCHM — may have spilled into the Elk River. That number is a substantial increase from early estimates of 2,000 to 5,000 gallons. The chemical leak, first reported Thursday, was at a facility owned by Freedom Industries along the Elk River, just 1.5 miles upstream from a major intake used by the largest water utility in the state, West Virginia American Water At a press conference Saturday afternoon, Jeff McIntyre, president of West Virginia American Water Company, said that it would likely still be "several days" before tap water in the nine counties affected would be safe for anything besides flushing toilets...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Joanna M. Foster / Think Progress:

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