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The families of four Wetzel County children have sued a Pittsburgh-based gas producer over health effects from fracking.
The families filed their complaint Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania against EQT, the largest gas producer in Appalachia.
The families say the operation of several gas wells and a compressor station in the Wetzel County community of Knob Fork released harmful pollutants that made the children sick.
Those include volatile organic compounds, which can cause dizziness, headaches, confusion, tremors, anxiety, nerve pain and muscle fatigue. One VOC, benzene, can cause cancer.
The families have relocated from their homes near the gas wells and compressor station to nearby New Martinsville and Paden City.
They seek compensatory and punitive damages, as well as the establishment of a medical monitoring trust for the children.
According to the lawsuit, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been investigating EQT’s West Virginia operations.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to cancel $7 billion in grants under the Solar for All program, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWest Virginia has a new set of rules for what can be served in school cafeterias. The state GOP has a new leader, and a West Virginia state senator had a lot of questions to answer in Washington, D.C. this week.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe Ohio River Valley Institute has been tracking the natural gas industry since the beginning of the fracking boom nearly two decades ago.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsPipeline owner EQT told investors in a presentation this week that it wants to increase the pressure in the line to accommodate another 500 million cubic feet a day, a 25% boost.
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