The head of the U.S. government's environmental agency said on Tuesday that rail operator Norfolk Southern Corp must 'pay for cleaning up the mess' created when a freight train derailment in Ohio released toxic chemicals into the environment.
"Let me be crystal clear: Norfolk Southern will pay for cleaning up the mess that they created and for trauma they've inflicted on this community," EPA Administrator Michael Regan said during a press conference in East Palestine.
"They created confusion in this process," Shapiro said. "They gave us inaccurate information and conflicting modeling data, and they refused to explore or articulate alternative courses of action when we were dealing with the derailment in the early days." "I know this order cannot undo the nightmare that families in this town have been living, but it will begin to deliver much needed justice for the pain that Norfolk Southern has caused," Regan said.
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