By Ken Ward Jr. Criminal pollution violations, lax environmental enforcement and glaring regulatory gaps caused the January 2014 chemical spill at Freedom Industries, and then poor emergency planning and a confused response turned the incident into a region-wide drinking water crisis in the Kanawha Valley, federal investigators conclude in a much-anticipated draft report being released this morning. The U.S.

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