EPA gives East Palestine residents the green light to garden, soil results come on the heels of lawsuit filed against EPA by nonprofit
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio - The EPA gave East Palestine residents the green light to garden, telling residents on Tuesday that their soil is safe. Not everyone is buying it.
“These are our children’s lives,” said Jami Wallace, President of the United Council for East Palestine and a former resident. “This is not a game. We are not entertainment. We need help and we need help now.” In late September the nonprofit watchdog group the Government Accountability Project filed a lawsuit against the EPA. They’re suing the EPA for denying expediting their Freedom of Information Act request.
“That’s really unusual and by denying the fee waiver for a lot of nonprofit agencies that’s basically like denying the request because it’s so expensive to do these FOIAs and the main thing that we’re concerned about is this expedited processing we really feel like it needs to happen,” Pacey said. “We’ve been talking to the residents Jami included and there’s so many sick people there that we feel like this is an imminent threat to public health that needs to be fully investigated.
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