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A spokesperson for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the agency “never used acronal during our response and cleanup at the East Palestine train derailment” and the safety plan “mistakenly referred to acronal when it should have been acronel.”
Typing errors in an official planning document related to the East Palestine train derailment response led to confusion regarding what chemicals were used in the cleanup, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The Government Accountability Project, a non-partisan nonprofit group which aims to “empower whistleblowers to hold the powerful accountable and advocate for change,” published a report Jan. 13 which claimed that EPA, Norfolk Southern, and multiple state and local agencies "knowingly approved the open-air use of Acronal, a styrene-acrylate industrial polymer” following the derailment.
That report turns out not to be true, though not by the GAP’s error. The EPA spokesperson told 21 News Tuesday that “a typo in the Health and Safety document” — a difference of one letter, in two separate places in the document — was to blame for the confusion.
The GAP report was based on a Health and Safety Plan co-authored by EPA and CTEH, a consulting company which was contracted by Norfolk Southern. On two separate instances, the document lists “Acronal” as an additional chemical hazard at the site, and says the chemical would be “used to break down butyl acrylate … also to reduce odor.”
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