I appreciate your clarification of who's responsible for what here (which is accurate), but there wasn't any government agency that didn't fall down on the job with regard to this spill. If I can refer you to...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024317509
and a portion of the article...
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, for example, sent out a news release to remind employers that they must provide potable water for drinking and hand-washing in the workplace. OSHA said it started an inspection Friday morning at Freedom Industries to "assess any potential worker safety and health issues related to the incident." But the release also noted that the operation "does not have OSHA history," meaning -- as confirmed by a review of OSHA data -- that federal workplace safety officials have never inspected the site. OSHA inspectors started to examine the facility in November 2009 as part of a program of special emphasis looking at accidents that prompted amputations, records show. But they discovered that Freedom Industries was in the wrong industry classification for that program, and they never did the inspection, said OSHA spokeswoman Lenore Uddyback-Fortson. Terri White, a regional spokeswoman for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said in a prepared statement that the EPA had deployed personnel to assist with water sampling and to offer "additional assistance" to the state. But White refused to make any EPA officials involved in the effort available for an interview. - See more at: http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201401110085?page=2&build=cache#sthash.BZoZ9Nsf.dpuf
The people of West Virginia were betrayed and continue to be betrayed at every turn by government agencies and courts that are supposed to protect their interests. It is they who will, in the end, pay for this catastrophe.
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