Water and soil cleanup after Ohio train crash could take 2 more months: regulator

“We are seeing as many as 40 to 45 trucks a day taking soil out of East Palestine this week,” Ohio EPA director Anne Vogel told Congress.

, should be completed within the next two months if the current pace of removal continues, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency director Anne Vogel said Tuesday.

“I’m not going to predict that there will be no more challenges, but things are on pace as of today,” Vogel reported.Burning chemicals from Ohio derailment created ‘lethal cocktail’, Pa. school district says in lawsuit Johnson described the cleanup process as “a bumpy road, to say the least,” and expressed frustration that the dirt contaminated by chemicals that spilled in the crash took so long to leave the community “because the proper, legal, certified disposal process was improperly turned into a political football.

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