Former Official Doubts Calls For EPA To Grant ‘Emergency’ In East Palestine

Citizen groups are again attacking EPA for what they say is its failure to declare a “public health emergency” due to the 2023 train derailment and chemical spill in East Palestine, OH, but a former top official says the agency lacks clear authority to do so, and granting the requests would be an “unusual” move. “It is very unusual for the public health statute or the public health emergency authority to be used in connection with an environmental challenge,” Stan...