Pennsylvania residents living near the Ohio chemical spill say they've been left out of recovery efforts. “I live less than a mile from ground zero,” a resident says. “Our whole way of life has been compromised, and nobody seems to understand that.”
Many thousands of fish have died, and community members have talked about finding sick pets and wildlife."Not to take anything away from the folks in East Palestine — they got the worst of it — but that cloud did not stay there," said Sherry Strozza, who lives about 3 miles away, in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania.
A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection said the agency is testing private wells within a 2-mile radius of the derailment site and developing its soil sampling plan. It intends to “aggressively pursue recovery of those costs from Norfolk Southern,” department spokesman Jamar Thrasher said in a statement.
Jerry Barber changes a furnace filter in his house on Feb. 17 after receiving free filters from a donation bank in Darlington, Pa.Leah Renee Markovitz, who lives 25 miles from East Palestine in Clinton, Pennsylvania, said her biggest concern is the health of her children, who have experienced cold-like symptoms in recent weeks, and contaminated water leaching into her well.
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