Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) said Sunday that East Palestine, Ohio, residents are 'right to be skeptical' of the government's assurances that they and their water supply are safe after the toxic freight train derailment.
to drink, residents have expressed deep skepticism. Asked about that mistrust and his own concerns about the water and air quality on CNN's, Brown replied,"Well, they’re right to be skeptical. The EPA administrator when I was there, both the state and federal EPA administrators, said that."his visit
to East Palestine last Thursday. “But when you return to your home, you should be tested again for your water and your soil and your air, not to mention those that have their own wells." Brown was then asked by host Pamela Brown he would drink the water, and if those officials claiming the water was safe should drink it.
“Well, I think they are," he said of the EPA officials,"I talked to the mayor. The mayor said definitively, emphatically, people can drink the water. The mayor’s — I don’t know. I don’t think the mayor has small kids. He looks a little older to me. I didn’t ask him, but — about bathing his kids."
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