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Questions linger on East Palestine waste a month later |
Federal-led cleanup is ongoing in East Palestine, Ohio, a month after a major train derailment and chemical spill. Yet some states and communities set to receive waste from the cleanup say they weren't informed.
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan announced the agency would take control of the cleanup in mid-February. The agency invoked the so-called Superfund law to order the Norfolk Southern railroad to pay for the cleanup. On Sunday, EPA regional administrator Debra Shore announced that waste would be shipped beginning this week to sites in East Liverpool and Vickery, Ohio. Earlier shipments had been conducted by Norfolk Southern without federal oversight, but as of Monday all waste disposal the railroad conducts will be subject to EPA approval amid confusion among states receiving waste. Shore expressed hope Norfolk Southern could begin removing tracks over the next week but did not offer a concrete schedule. Outside of the state, however, several shipments of waste were bound for disposal facilities in Michigan and Texas before the EPA halted them, much to the chagrin of some officials and environmentalists who say they were not properly notified. Read more about the cleanup process at TheHill.com.
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Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter, we're Rachel Frazin and Zack Budryk — keeping you up to speed on the policies impacting everything from oil and gas to new supply chains. |
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How policy will affect the energy and environment sectors now and in the future: |
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is putting the future of one of President Biden's nominees to the Interior Department in question. |
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| The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is suing ExxonMobil over racial discrimination after multiple nooses were found at one of the company's facilities. |
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Carbon dioxide emissions related to energy production globally rose at a slower pace by 0.9 percent in 2022, reaching more than 36.8 billion metric tons. |
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Branch out with a different read from The Hill: |
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Recent winter storms have provided a much-needed boost to California snowpack that is expected to help reinvigorate some of the state's reservoirs, water officials said on Friday. |
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News we've flagged from other outlets touching on energy issues, the environment and other topics: |
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Upcoming news themes and events we're watching: |
- Monday is the first day the Biden administration could make a decision on the Willow Project. That does not mean a decision will be issued on this day, but it could come any time going forward.
- The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday on the environmental impacts of cryptocurrency mining.
- The CEO of Norfolk Southern will testify before the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee Thursday following a train derailment that spilled chemicals in Ohio. Officials with both the federal EPA and Ohio state EPA will also appear.
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Two key stories on The Hill right now: |
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House Judiciary Democrats claimed Friday that three witnesses who have spoken to Republicans as part of the GOP investigation into politicization at the FBI have offered no evidence of wrongdoing by the law enforcement agency. Read more |
| Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Michael Steele unloaded on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday, saying that the controversial firebrand congresswoman needs to '"just shut the hell up." Read more |
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