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Gloria Oladipo and agencies

Overheated chemical tank in southern California ‘will fail’, EPA chief says

aerial view of water sprayed near chemical tank
A drone view shows water being sprayed during a chemical incident in Garden Grove, California, on 23 May. Photograph: David Swanson/Reuters

Government officials in Orange county, California, have warned that an overheated chemical tank “will fail” and could result in a chemical explosion in the area, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator said on Sunday.

“We’re being told that the tank will fail, but there are different scenarios as to what that means,” Lee Zeldin, told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. Zeldin, a former Republican congressman with no prior experience in environmental policy, was chosen by Trump as the head of the EPA.

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