Fallout from toxic Ohio spill lingers a month later

Environmental Safety Company (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan introduced the company would take management of the cleanup in mid-February. The company invoked the so-called Superfund regulation to order the Norfolk Southern railroad to pay for the cleanup.

On Sunday, EPA regional administrator Debra Shore introduced that waste can be shipped starting this week to websites in East Liverpool and Vickery, Ohio.

Earlier shipments had been carried out by Norfolk Southern with out federal oversight, however as of Monday all waste disposal the railroad conducts will probably be topic to EPA approval amid confusion amongst states receiving waste.

Shore expressed hope Norfolk Southern might start eradicating tracks over the subsequent week however didn’t provide a concrete schedule.

Outdoors of the state, nevertheless, a number of shipments of waste had been certain for disposal amenities in Michigan and Texas earlier than the EPA halted them, a lot to the chagrin of some officers and environmentalists who say they weren’t correctly notified. 

Learn extra in regards to the cleanup course of at TheHill.com.