Ex-Employees of Freedom Industries Plead Guilty in Chemical Spill Case
So far, four former employees of Freedom Industries in West Virginia have plead guilty in cases involving a chemical spill into the Elk River that left more than 300,000 residents without drinking water for several days.
Two former Freedom Industries officials, Michael E. Burdette and Robert J. Reynolds, pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston, W. Va., on March 18 to environmental crimes in connection with the January 2014 Elk River chemical spill. U.S.