Inside Appalachia

Town Reckons With its Toxic Past, While Looking to the EPA for Help


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On this week’s episode of Inside Appalachia, we’ll visit Minden, West Virginia, where residents are asking the federal government to consider adding their town to an official list of places most seriously contaminated by hazardous waste. But this nearly 40-year-old program’s budget is set to be cut by nearly a third in the Trump administration's latest spending plan. We’ll learn about how that may affect cleanup efforts for communities that are designated as U.S. Department of Environmental
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Inside AppalachiaBy West Virginia Public Broadcasting

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