EPA official blew off scheduled meeting with toxic Appalachian coal town

Albert Kelly stays behind in Washington to deal with fallout from Scott Pruitt controversies.

APR 6, 2018, 3:11 PM

On Thursday night, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt’s point person for the EPA’s Superfund program failed to show up at a scheduled meeting with residents of a West Virginia town contaminated by toxic chemicals.

Albert Kelly, senior adviser for the agency’s Superfund program, stayed behind in Washington to help Pruitt deal with the fallout from the barrage of controversies facing the administrator. Instead, the EPA sent Kelly’s top assistant, Nick Falvo, to Minden, West Virginia, to hear from residents about why they believe the town should be placed on the Superfund program’s National Priorities List (NPL).

The meeting, held in the sanctuary of the New Beginning Apostolic Church in Minden, attracted approximately 60 community members. Falvo told residents that Kelly would come back to visit Minden himself “once the storm in D.C. clears up,” referring to scandal-plagued Pruitt. This will hopefully be sometime next month, he said.

https://thinkprogress.org/epa-superfund-official-visits-minden-west-virginia-63704c2946d4/


I really do hope that one of the human beings in this town, or for that matter everyone living there, bring in a jar of water and ask this asshole to drink it right in front of them and tell them its safe, and then ask that the Pruitt asshole come on over and do the same thing in person..................