This week’s episode of Adventures in Deregulation brings us to West Virginia, where the Mountain State Spotlight ’s Sarah Elbeshbishi has been bulldogging a story about poisoned water in the Ohio River, an extremely frustrated judge, and the comatose watchdog that is the EPA under the barely distinguishable leadership of Lee Zeldin. From the MSS:

"Those pollutants endanger the environment, aquatic life, and human health,” U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin wrote in the order . “Today, that unlawful, unpermitted discharge stops. The West Virginia Rivers Coalition asked Goodwin in February to require the former DuPont, now Chemours, Washington Works facility to immediately comply with its permit limits after violating it for more than five years. The coalition’s request came a

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