By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff
Maine Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Melanie Loyzim has put a Canadian company on notice that it must demonstrate more urgency and diligence in cleaning up after a freight train derailed on April 15 in Sandwich Academy Grant in Somerset County.
Cleanup efforts continue after the train owned by Canadian Pacific Kansas City went off the tracks and caught fire.
The state issued a warning to Canadian Pacific Kansas City on Friday after the company's clean-up efforts resulted in the discharge of diesel fuel from a locomotive's tanks.
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has issued a scathing review of the railroad involved in last week’s northern Maine train derailment, citing a failure to follow orders to minimize public health and environmental impacts.
When a train goes off the tracks between Jackman and Rockwood, it harms the fish and the rest of the environment. In East Palestine, Ohio, it harms all the people, too.
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