Chemical Spill Lawsuit

A federal judge has tentatively approved a revised settlement to a class-action lawsuit over a West Virginia chemical spill that left residents without tap water for up to nine days. U.S. District Judge John Copenhaver on Thursday scheduled a final hearing for Jan. 9. In January 2014, a tank at now-defunct Freedom Industries in Charleston leaked thousands of gallons of coal-cleaning chemicals that got into West Virginia American Water’s treatment plant 1.5 miles downstream.