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Chris Deluzio: “The EPA was on the ground immediately.”

Featuring: Chris Deluzio, Democratic | U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 17

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Published March 6, 2023 | Video Starts at 36:49

… sense of allowing somebody clearly a not principled, not honest person, Donald Trump, to try to make an opportunity of this? I'll push back a bit. And to say this, The EPA was on the ground immediately. I've been the administrator, who's a cabinet level official on the ground out there twice in the last week or two. (36:49–36:53)

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Asserts that the EPA responded promptly to [the East Palestine disaster].

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Chris Deluzio

“My constituents in Beaver county are right there on the Pennsylvania side of the state line.”
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“I had constituents who were within the zone ordered to evacuate.”
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“Norfolk Southern trains running four or five blocks from where I live.”
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“EPA helping, and they were on the ground almost immediately.”
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“The states, Ohio and Pennsylvania, have the lead on water testing.”
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“Our governor who now has the state doing that testing, rather than anyone associated with the railroad.”
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“Norfolk Southern hasn't expanded this zone beyond the evacuation zone where they're providing some financial assistance to people affected.”
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“They've done that on the Ohio side for all residents of East Palestine.”
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“There's nothing to be offered to the Pennsylvania folks, which is ridiculous.”
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“I've called for them to expand that range to 30 miles so that folks who are impacted here in the most broadest possible sense have access to…”
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“This railroad is on the hook for every single penny of cleanup and the cost that folks bore when they had to evacuate.”
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“Norfolk Southern's negligence and incompetence caused real economic consequences.”
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“Those are costs that this railroad should be bearing.”
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“My Republican colleagues for too long carried water for this industry and resisted any efforts to regulate them.”
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“Bill seems very committed to reform, to making sure this railroad and this industry operates more safely.”
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“The way that they have embraced this psr, this precision scheduled railroading doctrine that wants to squeeze every ounce of profit they can…”
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“We are pushing to have every federal resource we can to support Governor Shapiro and the team in Harrisburg with state resources.”
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“The testing that we have to do for as long as it will take, I don't know if it's months or years, to see if any of these chemicals…”
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“What I have heard from the administration, direct from the EPA administrator, at least on the federal side, is there is a commitment to do…”
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“The railroad, excuse me, is held to account.”
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“Seeing the water testing taken away from the railroad or its contractors and have it done on our side of the border through our state dep.”
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“The consequence of that, this derailment and other examples we see all the time in places like I represent.”
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“Workers have to have some power as a countervailing force to hold them to account.”
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“The workers have been sounding the alarm about this industry in particular for a long time.”
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“Norfolk Southern has spent a heck of a lot more enriching their shareholders buying back stock or issuing dividends than they have to make…”
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“The Republicans control the House Representatives and frankly carry water for the big corporations who've been running this country.”
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“The rail industry is one where it's a pretty clear history even in recent years of them lobbying against any measure.”
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“DOT will now be implementing this minimum staffing rule.”
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“If there had been just one worker on this train as the railroads wanted, they would not have been able to take the action they took and this…”
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“I'm going to be working with others, definitely those who serve on transportation in the infrastructure committee on broadening that exact…”
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“I do think there will be some bipartisan support for something as straightforward as that [expanding the definition of high hazard flammable…”
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“It's been a gap in the law and it's probably the lowest hanging fruit for us to fix in Congress.”
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“We're swinging way away from this deregulatory Reagan esque idea.”
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“Amtrak is frankly part of the government in many ways.”
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“I've been [with] the administrator, who's a cabinet level official on the ground out there twice in the last week or two.”
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“Everything that my governor, local officials have immediately from the federal government, they're getting.”
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