East Palestine Mayor Trent Conaway and officials from the EPA, FEMA and CDC are set to give an update on Saturday afternoon about the recent train derailment.
Like most other cities, Columbus has its share of brownfields. Those are polluted plots of land, often old factories, that need restored to their original state before they can be re-developed. There’s a nearly $200 million effort to remediate more than 100 brownfields in Ohio, including eight here in Franklin County.