Conflicts of interest could undermine derailment cleanup in U.S. Ohio: Time


By Xia Lin

NEW YORK, March 15 (Xinhua) -- Many residents of East Palestine in the U.S. state of Ohio are suspicious of the environmental contractor Norfolk Southern has brought in to measure chemical exposures following last month's massive train derailment, toxic spill, and chemical burn off, reported the Time magazine on Tuesday.

"The residents of East Palestine have reason to be suspicious," said the author David Michaels, a professor at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, while introducing the environmental contractor, the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health (CTEH).

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