Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will visit East Palestine, OH, on Thursday, according to Politico, which cited “a person familiar with his plans.”
Now it’s taking Buttigieg 20 days to visit the site. The National Transportation Safety Board will provide Buttigieg
“on its probe, which could take as long as 18 months to complete.” He’ll talk with other Department of Transportation officials.it’s rare for the transportation secretary to visit a train derailment site without any fatalities. But this train derailment makes sense because of the national attention and because it might be one of the worst environmental disasters“The secretary is going now that the EPA has said it is moving out of the emergency response phase and transitioning to the long-term remediation phase,” the person familiar with Buttigieg’s thinking told POLITICO.
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