The train, of about 50 cars, was carrying toxic material in 11 cars and derailed on February 3 as it passed through eastern Palestine, a city of less than 5,000 people, forty miles from the industrial city of Pittsburgh and close to the border. with pennsylvania.
Euskaraz irakurri: Ohio trena errailetik atera zen inguruetan kutsadurarik en dagoela ziurtatu du Etxe Zuriak
The United States government maintains that the area affected by spills from a train derailment in Ohio 13 days ago is safe and the water is not contaminated, despite fears from neighbors.
The train, of about 50 cars, was carrying toxic material in 11 cars and derailed on February 3 as it passed through eastern Palestine, a city of less than 5,000 people, forty miles from the industrial city of Pittsburgh and close to the border. with pennsylvania.
Although eastern Palestine is small and in a fairly unpopulated area, the issue is being used by Republicans to criticize the federal government for the fallout from what happened, despite President Joe Biden’s administration insisting there is no danger is in the area.
The Environmental Protection Agency has continued to search the area and had checked 486 homes by afternoon.
These inspections check the quality of the air, but also that of the water, and there are no data to worry about that quality, the agency emphasizes on its website.
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Source: EITB
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