A gas and oil industry giant has renewed its pressure on West Virginia lawmakers to further roll back a law designed to protect the state’s most vulnerable waters from toxic chemical spills from aboveground storage tanks, claiming it’s not only onerous but unnecessary.

But that company has a history of violating standards for those tanks, and those standards have been widely violated throughout West Virginia since the latest effort to further erode the state’s tank oversight failed in the Legislature’s most recent regular legislative session in April. Water Crisis

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