said about six truckloads of soil were headed to michigan. officials in michigan said they never received a warning about those shipments. a representative saying our priority is to keep the people we represent safe. with me now is congresswoman dingle. how did you find out about these reported shipments to your state and what can you do? it began in the grapevine late afternoon yesterday that we have two different sites in my district. one is an injection well, which is accepting liquids. the other is a contamination site in belleville township. i quickly made some calls. the governor was not aware of this either. we spoke to each other very quickly. we learned that the governor of ohio had posted it on his website that they were headed for here. i called everybody. i called the epa, the norfolk southern and demanded answers. we very quickly realized that no one had been given a heads-up that it was coming here. there are issues related to the injection well, specifically
go to either one of the two hazardous waste sites you just cited that are in your district? unfortunately, here s a fact of my life. one of these sites have been in my district over the years. this injection well site, i can remember being at very loud town hall meetings about it 20 years ago. since i got elected, i had a relationship with u.s. ecology that when they were transporting material, because communities would be concerned, that they would normally give us a heads-up. when i learned of this yesterday, i called the governor s office assuming they would know about it. what quickly became evident is that none of the elected local officials knew this material was on its way. i think some people thought this was just normal business, but