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Toxic garlic grown in East Palestine, Ohio, is prompting renewed concerns about the safety of the area and risks to the residents who still call it home more than a year after a toxic train ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in Ohio designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law.The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
This photo taken with a drone shows portions of a Norfolk and Southern freight train that derailed Friday night in East Palestine, Ohio are still on fire at mid-day Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023.
East Palestine is situated in Columbiana County, right on the edge of Ohio’s border with Pennsylvania. The railroad tracks where the derailment occurred run along the southern border of the ...
The agency also says that some of the contamination was likely present before the derailment because of industries that operated in East Palestine decades ago. The latest spreadsheet EPA posted on its East Palestine website last month shows 8,758 soil and sediment test results produced since the derailment. Some 6,400 of those entries declare ...
[165] [166] A few weeks later, Brockovich traveled to East Palestine, Ohio where she was interviewed by local media, and appeared at one of several high-profile town hall meetings on Friday night, Feb. 24th. [167] At the meeting, Brockovich and an attorney highlighted decades of toxic chemical train derailments. [168]
Pollution from last year's fiery train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio carried to more than a dozen states — reaching as far as Wisconsin, new research shows.. The Feb. 3, 2023, accident, in ...
East Palestine (/ ˌ p æ l ɪ ˈ s t iː n / PAL-ist-EEN) is a village in northeastern Columbiana County, Ohio, United States.The population was 4,761 at the 2020 census. [6] Located on the state's border with Pennsylvania, East Palestine is about 20 miles (32 km) south of Youngstown and 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Pittsburgh.