Under-Insured and Incompetent—Company Behind West Virginia’s Chemical Spill Files For Bankruptcy

BY JEFF SPROSS CREDIT: AP PHOTO/TYLER EVERT According to the Charleston Gazette, Freedom Industries filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today. On January 10, a tank owned by Freedom spilled 7,500 gallons of 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol (MCHM) — a chemical used to wash coal