EPA, Congressional delegation visit East Palestine to hear from residents impacted by train derailment
“Look, people say that the air is clean,” Vance said. “I would like to believe that that’s true. I also have been here for all of three hours, and it doesn’t smell great to me.”
“You cannot dig out and clean up an area if it’s covered by railroad tracks and there are trains going over it,” Vance argued. “The fact that they replaced the rails, I think, suggests they’re much more focused on reopening the railway than on cleaning up this community.” Every single Democrat in the state legislature signed a letter urging Gov. Mike DeWine to do so. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-OH, has sent DeWine a letter as well.
But Vance expressed concerns that a such a declaration might inadvertently “let Norfolk Southern off the hook.” “EPA has assisted with the screening of more than 480 homes under the voluntary screening program offered to residents,” Regan said, “and no detections of vinyl chloride or hydrogen chloride were identified.”
“You can’t stay in a hotel for a week without spending a lot of out-of-pocket money,” he argued, “and that’s just something that Norfolk Southern needs to cover.”that the train didn’t have a high hazard designation. Johnson said his office began working on the idea immediately, and Brown committed to helping in the effort. Separately, Vance said he will share plans in the coming weeks.
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