Four children in West Virginia are taking a gas company giant to federal court after being knowingly exposed to toxic pollutants that have resulted in neurological and respiratory health problems.
Pittsburgh’s Public Source reported that three families and longtime residents of Knob Fork want EQT Corporation — the largest U.S. natural gas producer based in Pittsburgh — to take full financial responsibility for the negligence, illness, and distress their “grossly negligent and reckless” fracking operations in West Virginia have caused.
According to the Public Source article, the lawsuit states the children and their families were exposed to “hazardous, carcinogenic and radioactive pollutants, sickening them and forcing them to leave their childhood homes.”…