the ground and into the water, josh shapiro, the governor of pennsylvania, held a press conferences about it. shapiro announced that authorities had decided to set thoso announ e chemicals on fire. goo and that was a very good thing.e no one should be unduly alarmed . the burning ohemicaf theslse chemicals, shapiro said, had gone, quote,e, as planned. whil, officials on the scene, meanwhile, declared the burn dquote, perfect.ohio a gr mike dewine, the governor f ohio, agreed with all of this. the people in charge, the railroads, engineers and the state official engineesd overseeing them had everythinger under control. so two days later,tw evacuation orders for residents were officially lifted, both in east palestine over the border in pennsylvania. iorders were link subsequent days, a lot of people have wondered out loud, was it really a wisewondered den to light thousands of gallons of vinyl chloride on fire, releasing a world war one era bioweapon into the air over
i mean, having the company whose train derailed test forpun the effects of the derailment is a little like puttingas pfizer in charge of the fda.you ohpa, i guess we did that. so, chris , let me just ask you ,you pay taxes like everybody in this country. didn t you expect that when an environmental disaster like this happened, that statenia, and federal epa officials, pennsylvania, ohioio, by the administration would be on the scene seeing if you were not poisoned or. yes, i expected you know, i expected our government officialts to have stepped up to the plate, epa to step up we rhe plate, to start giving us direct answers and we re not getting any direct answersrigh as of right now. i you know, the wells, even, th thu knowth, you know, they re saying that our soil and our water is good to go in. at the air is good to go. peopl but, you know, we still havehavg sanimals that are dying, people