Contaminated soil from the site around the train wreck in the U.S. state of Ohio is being sent to a nearby incinerator with a history of clean air violations, raising fears that the chemicals being removed from the ground will be redistributed across the region, British newspaper The Guardian has reported.
The report, published on Saturday, came a month after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, causing an environmental disaster of still unknown proportions.
The new plan is “horrifying,” said Kyla Bennett, a former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official, who is now with the non-profit organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and was quoted in the report.