Plastic was invented here, and that`s just one reason the Kanawha Valley is called the chemical center of the world by those who work here. In many ways it is the fountainhead of the U.S. chemical … ...

The South Charleston Interpretive Center has recently opened its new permanent exhibit showcasing the history and impact of Union Carbide on the Kanawha Valley. The “Chemical Valley: Union ...

Multiple lawsuits are expected to follow the first one filed over exposure to ethylene oxide in the Kanawha Valley ... in Kanawha Circuit Court against Union Carbide, Dow Chemical, Bayer and ...

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va ... The EPA said the two Union Carbide facilities in Institute and South Charleston release so much ethylene oxide, known as EtO, that the area has a cancer risk more ...

(WSAZ) – As a follow-up to our investigation about cancer-causing chemicals that the EPA said were being released into parts of the Kanawha Valley ... about these two Union Carbide facilities ...

(WCHS) — Ethylene oxide has been used in the Kanawha Valley since the 1950s ... the number of people at risk went up at South Charleston's Union Carbide plant, at the Covestro plant in South ...

the crash happened around 11:40 a.m. Wednesday in South Charleston on the Kanawha Turnpike near Union Carbide Drive, which leads into the West Virginia Regional Technology Park. Dispatchers say ...