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But it... doesn't talk about that at all? Seriously, you're being a huge dick to me about all this, but once again it's just not in there. The closest we get is this:

Officials also believed the agency had enough authority to respond to the derailment without declaring an emergency.

Which is discussing long term incident response, as clarified in another article on the same topic from The Independent:

The aftermath of last year's fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio doesn't qualify as a public health emergency because widespread health problems and ongoing chemical exposures haven't been documented, federal officials said.

It doesn't talk about the immediate incident response, the thing I'm criticizing Buttigieg for.