By Pete Muntean, MJ Lee and Maegan Vazquez | CNN
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will visit the site of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday.
The secretary has come under intense pressure from East Palestine residents and other critics to visit the town in the wake of the February 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train that released toxic chemicals. He told reporters earlier this week that he would visit “when the time is right” but was deferring to the National Transportation Safety Board and its investigation first.
An administration official told CNN that the time is now appropriate for Buttigieg to go to East Palestine.
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