The Government Accountability Project filed a formal petition on Thursday with the EPA.
CORRECTS NAME SPELLING TO FIGLEY NOT FINLEY East Palestine, Ohio resident Marilyn Figley, right, talks with Scott Smith, in her garden on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. Figley planted a garden in 2024 after the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train near her home, using one of her husband's tractors to remove the top three inches of soil and replace with fresh dirt.
In the past, agency officials have dismissed the independent tests cited by the Government Accountability Project, pointing to their concerns with quality control. The tests were performed by Scott Smith, a businessman and inventor who, since his own factory was inundated by tainted floodwaters in 2006, has been on a crusade to help communities affected by chemical disasters.
“I’d rather eat dioxins than die of starvation I guess,” Figley said. “I’m pretty worried, but what can you do?”, including pipes, wire and packaging materials, and is found in polyvinyl chloride plastic, better known as PVC. Thousands of residents had to evacuate their homes temporarily after the derailment and during the venting and burning of the vinyl chloride, which sent an enormous toxic plume of black smoke over the town.
Smith has visited East Palestine more than two dozen times since the derailment to test soil and water for dioxins and other chemicals. He is not a scientist by training but has traveled to chemical disaster sites for years. His testing is reviewed by a team of scientific advisers, including a former top Ohio EPA expert, and he sends all his samples to a laboratory that the EPA and others agree is reputable.
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