{"id":1851421,"date":"2023-02-17T13:20:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1851421"},"modified":"2023-02-17T13:21:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:21:06","slug":"epa-chief-norfolk-southern-will-absolutely-be-held-accountable-for-ohio-chemical-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/epa-chief-norfolk-southern-will-absolutely-be-held-accountable-for-ohio-chemical-spill\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA Chief: Norfolk Southern Will &#8220;Absolutely&#8221; Be Held Accountable for Ohio Chemical Spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fepa-chief-norfolk-southern-will-absolutely-be-held-accountable-for-ohio-chemical-spill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1851421&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ohio-train-5-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Two weeks have passed since the train derailment at Norfolk Southern. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-east-palestine\">East Palestine<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ohio\">Ohio<\/a>The city was exposed to hazardous chemicals. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-environmental-protection-agency\">Environmental Protection Agency<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-epa\">EPA<\/a>) Administrator Michael Regan promised residents that the railway company would \u201cabsolutely\u201d be held accountable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me be clear: EPA will exercise our oversight and our enforcement authority under the law to be sure we are getting the results that the community deserves and in coordination with the state,\u201d Regan said at a Thursday, Feb. 16, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EPAMichaelRegan\/status\/1626299921212092421\">press conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be here as long as it takes to ensure the health and safety of the community,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the Feb. 3 derailment, many East Palestine residents\u2014of which there are more than 4,700\u2014have reported mysterious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/animals-falling-sick-dying-near-hellish-ohio-train-derailment-site-locals-claim_5053559.html\">animal illnesses and deaths<\/a> and strange weather phenomena, including an \u201cacid mist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Tiffani Kavalec, chief of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Division of Surface Water, confirmed that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/officials-say-plume-of-chemicals-in-ohio-river-moving-downstream-after-train-derailment_5057980.html\">\u201cplume\u201d of chemicals<\/a> was also moving downstream in the Ohio River.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in the area have received backlash for their decision to burn off the leaked chemicals\u2014which included highly toxic vinyl chloride, hydrogen chloride, and other hazardous materials\u2014in a controlled burn that released thick, black clouds into the air.<\/p>\n<p>But despite community members\u2019 concerns about potential health impacts, Regan said Thursday that testing had revealed the air was safe to breathe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the fire went out, EPA air monitoring has not detected any levels of health concern \u2026 that are attributed to the train derailment,\u201d he said, noting that the agency had tested the air quality of more than 480 homes and other sources before reaching that conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Adding that air monitoring would continue around the clock, Regan said the results from the state\u2019s water testing were still pending and advised residents to use bottled water for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>Also acknowledging that some residents might be skeptical of results that say their air or water is safe, the EPA chief said that, were he in their position, he would trust those readings.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Regan did not rule out the possibility of negative health effects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those who are experiencing some kind of adverse health reaction, we ask that they please seek medical attention,\u201d he said. \u201cAlso, we ask that they contact their local and state health agencies because we want that information, we want to hear from people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks have passed since the train derailment at Norfolk Southern. East Palestine, OhioThe city was exposed to hazardous chemicals. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan promised residents that the railway company would \u201cabsolutely\u201d be held accountable. \u201cLet me be clear: EPA will exercise our oversight and our enforcement authority under the law to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1851424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5955,18952,14092,5772,10732,5646,18951,4333,6260,6163],"class_list":["post-1851421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-absolutely","tag-accountable","tag-chemical","tag-chief","tag-epa","tag-held","tag-norfolk","tag-ohio","tag-southern","tag-spill"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1851424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}