First published at 22:04 UTC on February 17th, 2023.
Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, traveled to East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday and took a video of what appeared to be a polluted creek bed with dead wildlife two weeks after a train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed.
"There are dead worms and dead…
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Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, traveled to East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday and took a video of what appeared to be a polluted creek bed with dead wildlife two weeks after a train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed.
"There are dead worms and dead fish all throughout this water," Vance said in the video as he stood next to Leslie Run Creek. "This is disgusting. And the fact that we have not cleaned up the train crash, the fact that these chemicals are still seeping into the ground is an insult to the people who live in East Palestine."
Vance scraped the bottom of the creek bed with a stick, which appeared to show "chemicals coming out of the ground."
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