EPA administrator and Ohio senators to travel to East Palestine Thursday

Breanne Deppisch

February 16, 10:05 AM February 16, 10:17 AM

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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan will visit East Palestine on Thursday, nearly two weeks after a train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed there, leading to a burn-off of chemicals that has raised fears of an environmental crisis.

Regan announced the visit on Twitter on Wednesday.

“We’ve mobilized a very high-tech airplane, we’ve mobilized mobile vans, we have stationary air monitoring, and we’ve been in over 460 homes testing the air quality,” Regan said on Fox News. “We’re going to test 28 more homes today. The data shows that there are no elevated levels.”

He added that the agency would “hold Norfolk Southern accountable.”

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The two U.S. senators from Ohio, Sherrod Brown (D) and J.D. Vance (R), also said on Thursday that they would travel to the site.