“We still feel we are in danger.” [and] As some of this contaminated soil pile moves around, the danger will get even worse,” said Hilary Flint, a cancer survivor who lives in Eden Valley, Pennsylvania, about six miles from East Palestine, Ohio. Told. “
I feel like this story isn’t over yet.”
Flint, a member of the advocacy group Mama’s Clean Air Force and vice president of the United Council for the East Palestine Train Derailment, said state and local officials are on the wrong track with their communication strategies. he said.
“They say, ‘There is no soil contamination in East Palestine yet, it’s all still in East Palestine,’ but in reality, they just moved it,” she says.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan told reporters Wednesday: “We will not leave until this community is healed and healthy again, and we will not rest in our mission to hold Southern Norfolk accountable.” Ta.
Regan insisted on the phone that the EPA had determined the occupancy.
Not currently at risk from soil, surface water, and air.
Misty Allison, an East Palestine resident who works with Mama’s Clean Air Force, said the news cycle is moving forward. created
The impression that the situation is more resolved than it actually is.
The cleanup process is almost complete at ground zero, the crash site, but there are other possibilities, she said.
By-products are an ongoing concern The effects may not be felt until months or years later.
For example, she told The Hill that sampling of stream sediments is still ongoing. A preliminary report in early January showed Sulfur Run, a stream that is a tributary of Leslie Run in eastern Palestine, she added. It remains contaminated.
Allison, who wrote an op-ed for The Hill, said, “That stream runs through businesses all over the city, right next to our homes.”
“So this is not just an isolated incident.”
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