JD Vance

Yeah, and a lot of people – it's a rural area, so a lot of people are on well water.

A lot of people are just breathing in the air.

We won't know, and we may never really know because we didn't collect the samples at the time because you've got to establish the baseline.

That was what my epidemiologist guy that I talked to in North Carolina said.

You've got to establish the baseline because here's what's going to happen, right?

Fast forward 10 years, people get weird cancers, sometimes because of chemical spills, sometimes just because that's human biology.

Somebody will sue the train company, which is Norfolk, I think Norfolk Southern.

We'll sue the train company and they'll say, I've got this weird cancer because of you.

And what Norfolk Southern will say is, no, you don't.

You don't have this weird cancer because of me.

You have it because of just, you know, you sort of lost the game of Russian roulette that is human biology.

And what we could have said conclusively was yes or no.

And unfortunately, we're not going to be able to say that.

This is one of the things like when we're in office.

The first – not the first, but the first disaster that we have – hopefully there aren't any, but there always are.

First chemical disaster that we are, we're going to take the infrastructure of that study and right away we're going to try to establish a baseline.

Is it possible to – I mean –

How would you – do you have to test the groundwater to make sure that it doesn't –

The local EPA folks I actually think did a pretty good job there on the water side because what they basically did is they just ran the water in the creeks through a filtration system, cleaned it, oxidized it, and then got the chemicals out of it and then put it back into the system.

Now, the problem is the stuff that's just in the ground, you can't really get that out.