katie mclaughlin, you haven t had a chance to speak yet. and i would love for you to be able to ask your question. sure. thank you for being here. so, each day that passes, the chemicals are sinking deeper into our land and water and further poisoning the residents and environment, what s the timeline for cleanup. and can we expect to see a sense of urgency in remediation efforts like when we saw in opening the tracks? katie, thank you for the question. as you heard earlier, there s been hundreds of tests by our independent contractor, by the epa, by local health authorities, and they all come back and say that the air quality is clean, water quality is clean. we re going to continue to monitor that. we are set up a new ray of groundwater testing in around st. louis to continue to test. we are going to continue the monitoring, and we re going to continue with the environmental cleanup. we ve accident the emergency
and that s a down payment. we re going to continue. and we re going to be here today. we re going to be here tomorrow. we re going to be here a year from now. we re gonna be here five years from now. that s my commitment to this community. i want to see this through. and each and every day, i m going to do the next right thing. katie rothman, you haven t had a chance to speak yet. and i would love for you to be able to ask your question. sure, thank you for being here. so, each day that passes, the chemicals are sinking deeper into our land and water and further poisoning our residents and environment. what is the timeline for cleanup and can we expect to see a sense of urgency in remediation efforts, like we saw in opening the tracks? yes, katie, thank you for the question. you know, as you heard earlier, there is been hundreds of tests. by our independent contractor, by the epa, by local health authorities. and they all come back and say the air quality is clean, water
affected by the fire are expecting action by the government. i really do hope that michael gove forces developers to sign this and this isn tjust kind of empty words, as we ve seen in the past. many building businesses already pay a cladding tax and want the government to do more to address the issue. the housing secretary has clearly said, he told the house of commons select committee last year, that the reason he s going after uk house builders is because they re domiciled in the uk, they pay taxes here, and they re easier to engage with, as he put it then. we would argue, and we have argued for the past five years or longer, that product manufacturers also need to pay their fair share and help towards the remediation efforts. richard galpin, bbc news. i m nowjoined by sophie bichener, who is part of the uk cladding action group and has been
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