But mostly I am baffled by the public response to this incident. The thing about America is there are zillions of highly polluted sites in this country, we make more of them all the time, it takes us either decades or forever to clean them up, dioxins are a very common contaminant, and there are already hundreds of communities waiting in line for EPA actions to clean them up. So the idea that EPA actions will promptly remediate this site is somewhat ridiculous. If there are high levels of dioxins, and so far there is no evidence of that, relocating the people out of this town is the only action that can be timely taken.
Example: a site contaminated by high levels of vinyl chloride, the same junk that was spilled in Ohio, in the center of Oakland, California, has been polluted since 1960, identified since 1995, on the "national priorities list" i.e. Superfund, but no meaningful remediation has taken place and no responsible party has even been nominated yet.