Article 6JBR6 Residents’ lives still in limbo a year after East Palestine toxic derailment

Residents’ lives still in limbo a year after East Palestine toxic derailment

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Dharna Noor
from Environment | The Guardian on (#6JBR6)

Despite assurances many living near the site of the train accident do not believe their homes are free of pollutants and feel officials are not listening

It started with the smell: a saccharine, chemical odor. Hilary Flint noticed it as soon as she walked into her home in Enon Valley, Pennsylvania, one day last February.

It was something like I'd never smelled before," said Flint, who spoke to the Guardian from her kitchen for a special edition of the Politics Weekly America podcast. I describe it as sweet bleach."

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