Truck Carrying Toxic Soil From East Palestine Overturns
Source: https://www.newsweek.com/, April 11, 2023
By: Aleks Phillips
A truck carrying 40,000 pounds of soil contaminated with toxic chemicals from the train derailment near East Palestine, Ohio crashed on Monday evening while en route to a disposal site.
In a statement, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said that roughly half of the tractor-trailer’s load had spilled onto the road and into a nearby ditch on State Route 165, which runs from Unity, near East Palestine, toward Beloit. The aftermath of the crash was captured on video and posted to Twitter on Tuesday. Read more.