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The EPA lied, people might have died, but it was for a good cause. The political cause of the Left.
The non-profit group, Government Accountability Project (GAP), claims the EPA tested nearby soil and water much earlier than previously disclosed to the public.
The group says the EPA found an elevated level of dioxins during those tests — but continued to tell residents they were safe from the chemicals spilled and burned after the train derailed…
The GAP found documents that show the EPA, Norfolk Southern and its paid consultant Arcadis conducted dioxin and related testing on Feb. 9 and Feb. 17, 2023. They found elevated levels of dioxin and other dangerous compounds in East Palestine despite saying otherwise, publicly.
“They didn’t want people to know they had dioxin concerns here. Dioxin is the most toxic substance known to man,” Pacey said.
So what did the Feb. 17 results show? “It shows a TEQ dioxin level of 91.9, which is 19 times higher than the 4.8 screening level, which requires more testing,” said independent testing expert Scott Smith.
Despite this being exactly the kind of thing that the EPA had been created for, the agency was much more focused on…
1. Banning gas stoves
2. Eliminating most traditional forms of industry
3. Pushing equity
While the EPA maintained its ‘laser focus’ on pollution involving minorities, East Palestine had white people living in it and the disaster had happened on Biden and Buttigieg’s watch making it politically inconvenient.
On Feb 3, a train filled with hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine. That same day, an interview with Buttigieg about “infrastructure, safety and equity” appeared in Forbes Magazine.
Buttigieg did not mention the disaster in East Palestine, instead he talked about how “communities of color” were being “destroyed” by infrastructure investment and how under Biden, they’d have the opportunity to “reconnect across highways or railways that divide them.”
The disaster that would be compared to Chernobyl around the world did not change Buttigieg’s schedule or his priorities. At the National Association of Counties, Buttigieg complained that there were too many white construction workers working on projects in black neighborhoods. That same day he finally got around to tweeting a press release, “I continue to be concerned about the impacts of the Feb 3 train derailment.” Afterward he tweeted about his NACO event.
Last year, the EPA’s Michael Regan, hailed as the first black administrator to hold the role, visited Alabama on the anniversary of the Selma march and claimed that black residents faced water discrimination.
Two weeks after the disaster, Regan finally visited and unconvincingly assured residents of East Palestine that their water was safe to drink and the air safe to breathe. He claimed that he couldn’t have come earlier so as not to “take away resources from the state highway patrol”.
Had this been a story involving a GOP administration and a corporation instead of the EPA, Hollywood would be fast-tracking movies based on it. (Tommy Lee Jones would play the evil corporate stooge.) But since it is what it is, expect this one to be buried like toxic waste.
Some people’s lives matter, others don’t, and some political causes matter more than people’s lives.
Info from government environmental testing organizations isn’t very reliable.
Based on my personal experience. One time there was an loud explosion at the local refinery, a black mushroom cloud rose about a mile high outside my computer room window as I watched, and within seconds there was a strong smell of sulphur, despite the window being closed. Yet the government testers who finally showed up some hours later said no toxins had left the refinery grounds. Meanwhile I went up to the local hill and watched the thick black clouds, driven by the winds, roll into Berkeley, 10 miles away. My old scoutmaster was there also, a retired chemical engineer.
Yeah, there’s a local Palestine doctor who stirs the shoreline mud of the river with a stick and you can see the rainbow color of chemicals swirl up. He says a seven year old could do a better job than the Biden EPA, and he’s right.
America is in Hell.
East Palestine. I correct you becuase on the Indiana border there is a Palestine Ohio. 2 different towns.
Do you guys really pronounce it PalesTEEN? Like “Young Frankenstein?” “FrankensTEEN!” And he stabs himself in the thigh.
On TV, they always pronounce it “PalesTEEN.’ It seems strange to me but maybe nobody wants to be associated with the Islamic shithole of fictional Palestine? The Guzzard Strip?
I’d hate that name if it were my town so I don’t blame them.
Nope, long “I” like as i tines of a fork.
There is a Russia Ohio that is pronounced “Rooshy” though.
Exactly. Woke visuals matter. Had East Palestine been an illegal or Somalian encampment, no stone would be left unturned. With Topeka Kansas starting it’s ‘Choose Topeka’ campaign to draw illegals there with a $15,000 signing bonus for a select few job takers, my guess is that a toxic train derailment there would be handled very quickly because liberal optics are vitally important.
systemic inequality under the law
If memory serves, Diamond Shamrock on the Houston Ship Channel was the world’s worst polluter when the EPA tested its effluent. Then Diamond Shamrock tested their intake water and demonstrated that the testing equipment was not sensitive enough to determine if the company had added any content at all to the water while it passed through the refinery. Oops.
This is not a story, it’s an allegation. If it turns out to be true, then certainly the EPA has much to answer for.
As for the claim that the EPA is trying to “eliminate most traditional forms of industry”, well, that’s a prime example of Greenfield baseless hyperbole. Bravo Daniel!
The River is still polluted and people who even visit their former homes get sick, you stupid asshole. I guess you like that, because most of them are normal conservatives, and not blue city scumbags.
In the interest of preserving the noble traditions of free exchange of ideas, trolls, regardless of their insincerities, are invited to post here.
Thank you, Daniel, for permitting this mendacious fruitcake the opportunities to do so.
it’s helpful to have a ‘this is why we fight’ reminder walking around loose
And he makes a good punching bag.
Mick is like the class clown, or village idiot 🙂
The EPA has neglected its duty to support this imbecilic and not a work from the Eco-Freaks look at all that what the Wildlife suffered
The solution would be for the town to hire a private testing firm. You can do that and the EPA hates these people becuase they uncover what the EPA is trying to cover up. A girl i used to live with her and her father were both geologists and that was what they did.
As far as taking resources from the highway patrol, that is almost laughable as an excuse. But if you get pulled over in Ohio you want it to be by the highway patrol or the sheriff rather than local PD. Much more likely to get a warning rather than a ticket.
‘Did the EPA Cover Up East Palestine Toxins to Help Biden?’
Yes. Yes it did.
And the toxins are still there.