Residents of the Ohio village upended by a freight train derailment are demanding reassurances after chemicals spilled in their community.
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With the community in the national spotlight, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan prepared to visit Thursday to assess the ongoing response and hear from residents. Deal called that a “copout.” She and her two children left home to stay with her mother, 20 kilometres away “and we could still see the mushroom cloud, plain as day,” she said.“Why are they being hush-hush?” Dyke said of the railroad. “They’re not out here supporting, they’re not out here answering questions. For three days we didn’t even know what was on the train.”Article content
“We will be judged by our actions,” Norfolk Southern President and CEO Alan Shaw said in a statement that also said the company is “cleaning up the site in an environmentally responsible way.”
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