After halting the process on Feb. 24, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that shipment of contaminated waste from the toxic train derailment site in eastern Ohio could resume on Feb. 28.
Amid objections from Michigan authorities who said they weren’t aware that hazardous materials were headed into their state, the EPA ordered a temporary pause on the contaminated waste shipments over the weekend.
The decision was made to allow more oversight about where the waste was taken. Some liquid and solid waste from the site had already been transported to locations in Michigan and Texas.
“Everyone wants this contamination gone from the community,” EPA Region 5 Administrator Debra Shore said after the shipping pause. “They don’t want the worry, and they don’t want the smell, and we owe it to the people of East Palestine to move it out of the community as quickly as possible.”…