An environmental company abandoned a plan Tuesday to treat contaminated runoff water from East Palestine, Ohio, in Baltimore after city officials blocked it from using the sewer system, the latest challenge to cleaning the train derailment site amid opposition from communities unwilling to accept waste.
Baltimore City Council members passed a resolution to ask the Environmental Protection Agency to stop contaminated wastewater from coming to Baltimore.
Clean Harbors told city and county officials last week that they planned to treat 675,000 gallons of contaminated water from East Palestine, Ohio at their Baltimore facility and release it into the city's wastewater system.