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#EPA data make it hard to know the extent of the #contamination from last year’s #Ohio #derailment
By JOSH FUNK - Associated Press
September 24, 2024"The way the Environmental Protection Agency has reported its test results since the disastrous East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment last year makes it hard for residents to know the full extent of the contamination they have been exposed to that they worry could increase their risk of cancer. A new Associated Press analysis of data from the agency — along with results from #NorfolkSouthern’s contractors who are carrying out the cleanup and independent testers in East Palestine — raise questions about whether the EPA is disclosing everything it knows. The agency’s lack of transparency, combined with independent tests that appear to show lingering problem areas in town, are making it hard for some residents to trust the EPA."
#EastPalestine #EastPalestineOhio #ToxicSmoke #Contamination #Environment #ChemicalIndustries #ToxicWaste #TrainSafety #Polluters #HazardousChemicals
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#NorfolkSouthern reaches $600 million settlement to settle #EastPalestine #derailment suit
By David Goldman, CNN
April 9, 2024New York CNN — "Norfolk Southern has reached a $600 million settlement that, if approved by a court, will resolve all lawsuits covering thousands of residents within 20 miles of the 2023 #EastPalestineOhio, derailment that spilled more than a million pounds of #hazardous #chemicals into the soil, water and air.
"The rail company said the settlement is intended to offset costs related to the spill that sent a plume of #ToxicSmoke into the air and displaced many residents and businesses. But Norfolk Southern didn’t admit to any liability or wrongdoing as a result of the settlement.
"'Individuals and businesses will be able to use compensation from the settlement in any manner they see fit to address potential adverse impacts from the derailment,' the company said in a statement. 'This could include healthcare needs and medical monitoring, property restoration and diminution, and compensation for any net business loss.'
"The settlement of the class-action lawsuit, which subsumed 31 separate cases, also allows residents within 10 miles of the derailment to receive additional compensation.
"In a court filing Tuesday, the plaintiffs said they expected to file a motion for the judge to approve the settlement within 10 days. Attorneys representing the claimants said they hope to make the claims process easy and efficient and to begin sending out payments by the end of 2024.
"'We believe this is a fair, reasonable and adequate result for the community on a number of levels, not the least of which is the speed of the resolution, and the overall amount of the awards residents can expect, which will be significant for those most impacted by the derailment,' said Seth Katz of Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine, M. Elizabeth Graham of Grant & Eisenhofer, Jayne Conroy of Simmons Hanly Conroy and T. Michael Morgan of Morgan & Morgan, in a combined statement.
"Following the February 3, 2023, Norfolk Southern freight train derailment, residents were ordered to evacuate temporarily. State and federal environmental officials say testing shows the air and water in the town is now safe, but some residents still complain of health problems, including burning sensations in their eyes, tingling in their lips, heaviness in their chest and swelling of lymph nodes in their necks and groins."
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/investing/norfolk-southern-settlement/index.html -
From AP.com: A year on, a small Ohio town is recovering from a fiery train derailment but health fears persist
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Truck carrying 40,000 lbs of toxic soil from East Palestine overturns
#eastpalestine #eastpalestineohio #eastpalestinetraindisaster #SecretaryPete
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Ayn Rand's depiction in Atlas Shrugged of railroad tycoons as altruistic philanthropists held back from efficiently serving all humanity by evil and burdensome government regulation may have missed the mark … just a bit.
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#TransportationSecretary Pete #Buttigieg slammed the railroad industry for opposing safety reforms and shot back at his #GOP critics during a conference call with reporters on Monday night to roll out a blitz of new #railroad safety proposals.
Buttigieg, under fire for failing to appear at the scene of a fiery #derailment and #explosion in #EastPalestineOhio, and waiting more than a week to publicly discuss the incident, has sharply criticized the #Rail #Industry.
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And all this because of some insecure brakes that someone didn't find important enough to fix and prevent the desaster.
In earlier times the head of the responsible person would have been put on a pole, posted at the town limits, so that anyone planning similar crime would be warned...
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Tschernobyl war schlimmer als die Verseuchung des Rheins und ich sage das hier deshalb, nicht um das Zugunglück in #EastPalestineOhio zu verharmlosen, sondern um es einzuordnen. Der Chemieunfall in Basel war schlimmer als #EastPalestine und Tschernobyl schlimmer als Basel.
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@TheDailyEdge
De-Regs = De-Valuing human life #sad #eastpalestineOhio
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Punish railroad CEOs just like any other criminal
#EnvironmentalDisaster #EastPalestineOhio #DetroitMichigan #Environment
https://embed.kumu.io/42a4035a909e605ce41b144c5728556f#make-punishment-match-the-crime/including-railroad-ceos -
Is this the message from Mayor #PeteButtigieg @USDOT to the people of #EastPalestineOhio ❓
#vinylchloride ☠️ #NorfolkSouthern 🚉 -
@504DR Toxic train broke down two days before Ohio derailment, had too much weight: workers #EnvironmentalDisaster #EastPalestineOhio #ToxicTrain #EastPalestineOH #VinylChloride
https://nypost.com/2023/02/16/toxic-train-broke-down-two-days-before-ohio-derailment-workers/ via @nypost -
Toxic train broke down two days before Ohio derailment, had too much weight: workers #EnvironmentalDisaster #EastPalestineOhio #ToxicTrain #EastPalestineOH #VinylChloride
https://nypost.com/2023/02/16/toxic-train-broke-down-two-days-before-ohio-derailment-workers/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons via @nypost -
Ohio train derailment: The catastrophic chemical spill the US isn’t talking about | The New Daily
#EnvironmentalDisaster
#EastPalestineOhio https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2023/02/14/chemical-train-derailment-ohio/ -
A freight train carrying toxic chemicals derailed 50 miles outside Pittsburgh, forced thousands to evacuate, and created a toxic cloud. Workers knew the train had safety issues.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88qze4/32-nasty-rail-workers-say-they-knew-the-train-that-derailed-in-east-palestine-was-dangerous
#Freighttrains #EastPalestineOhio #norfolksouthern #trainderailment #toxicchemicals #airborntoxicevent #precisionscheduledrailroading #Moveable -
I am absolutely convinced that if not for Social Media, nobody would know about the toxic detonation in #EastPalestineOhio
Corporate media is so well consolidated and singing from the same playbook.
JFK said it best when he said a strong democracy needs a strong press. The western ideals of democracy are in so much trouble.
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Less than 500km from Canada's largest city, a literal toxic explosion so large took place that you could see black smoke through the cloud layer from a commercial jet, and somehow, it's nowhere to be found on CBC's front page.
Why is Canada participating in this media blackout?