Ohio train derailment highlights waste disposal predicament: When word surfaced that soils and liquids laced with chemicals from the East Palestine, Ohio ...
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Toxic waste from the Ohio train disaster heads to 2 more cities as the EPA chief returns to East Palestine
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Quick Glance: The toxic train disaster in Ohio raises new concerns in other states, while scientists say chemical tests in East Palestine are unusually high.
- According to the data analysis, the chemical with the highest concentration found in East Palestine was acrolein.
- "We've been testing the air from the very beginning, and the state has been testing the water," Regan explained.
- More privately owned well water is being tested. Officials in Ohio have declared East Palestine's municipal water supply safe to drink, citing multiple tests and the fact that the municipal water is drawn from five steel-encased wells deep underground.
- The Columbiana County Health District makes test results available online.
Trump visits East Palestine train derailment site, calls response a 'betrayal'
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Worker injured in industrial explosion and fire in St. Catharines, Ont., has died
cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/man-dies-industrial-explosion-fire-st-catharines-ontario-1.6713216
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