Van Buren Township

Today, what role oversight plays in the reliability of the grid and how elected officials are responding to more frequent outages. Then, we checked in on a hazardous waste dump in Van Buren Township, and its connection to toxic waste from the train crash in East Palestine, Ohio. Plus, a look at a new comic centering the stories of Black queer icons.

The derailment happened east of Belleville near Haggerty Road, south of I-94. Township police say there is no threat to the public, since no rail cars containing hazardous materials were among those that went off the rails.