The coal, oil, and fracking industry insists there’s nothing to worry about because they do a terrific job policing themselves. So how good a job did the chemical industry in West Virginia do policing itself in the run-up to the Elk River chemical spill?
Next time Republicans tell you they want to eliminate the E.P.A. and let industry regulate itself, remember this video from the Charleston, West Virginia chemical spill. You can’t drink the water, bathe in it, and now you can’t allow it to get near a lit match. Republican statements on gutting the E.P.A. below the clip.