Representatives from the EPA, FEMA, and the CDC visited approximately 350 households over the weekend.
President Joe Biden instructed federal agents responding to the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, to go door-to-door to conduct health surveys with impacted families, a White House official said Monday.
Biden has defended his administration’s response, noting to reporters on Friday that federal officials were on the ground within hours of the Feb. 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern Corp. train carrying toxic chemicals.
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