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Toxic chemical spill in Ohio
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U.S. Federal regulators from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Tuesday that they have taken charge of the cleanup from the toxic train derailment in the U.S. state of Ohio, and that the company responsible has been ordered to pay for all of it. Our CGTNAmerica crew is on the ground in East Palestine, Ohio, looking at the extent of the cleanup work ahead. Take a look at the evidence of lingering oily materials in the creeks near the site of the derailment that our crew found.
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