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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Toxic wastewater from Ohio train derailment headed to Texas

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Toxic wastewater used to extinguish a fire following a train derailment in Ohio is headed to a Houston suburb for disposal.

“I and my office heard today that ‘firefighting water’ from the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment is slated to be disposed of in our county," Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said in a Wednesday statement.

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