EPA calls whistleblower reports false

EPA calls whistleblower reports false

EAST PALESTINE — The Region 5 Environmental Protection Agency pushed back at a recent Associated Press story and reports from NewsNation that accuses the agency of not fully utilizing an advanced aircraft that could have collected crucial data during the vent-and-burn of vinyl chloride following last year’s derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train. The published reports charge that the EPA’s Airborne Spectral Photometric Environmental Col…