Locals who live near the site of the toxic train derailment describe ‘burning eyes and throat’ as experts say the EPA is needlessly putting their health at risk
is pressuring the Environmental Protection Agency to test for dioxins and other dangerous chemicals, the agency has resisted taking those steps, and, some critics say, is needlessly putting residents’ health at risk with its decisions.
Petroleum-based chemicals float on the top of the water in Leslie Run creek after being agitated from the sediment, in East Palestine.health department opened a free health clinic at a church in the middle of town amid mounting fear and frustration among residents who continue to suffer acute symptoms including headache, nausea, cough, a burning sensation in the throat and nose, and panic attacks.
“We’re older, by the time you see the attorney ads on TV for people who lived in East Palestine during the train derailment we’ll be dead. But what about the little kids around this town, what kind of effects will they have?” he added.stemming from firefighting foam used at the site, which probably contaminated the water and soil.
Plugging these holes would require the agency to expand its testing into Pennsylvania and continue to monitor into the foreseeable future, said Keeve Nachman, a public health researcher with Johns Hopkins University who partly focuses on chemical exposure health risks. Dioxins are a family of highly toxic compounds formed during the manufacture and burning of chlorinated chemicals often used to make PVC plastic. They are classified as carcinogens, and considered to be endocrine disruptors that can affect reproductive, developmental and immune systems.
The chemicals are highly mobile, meaning they easily move through the air and could have been deposited downwind in Pennsylvania, or in agricultural regions surrounding East Palestine.
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