Reporter arrested during news event on Ohio train derailment

[Satanica]

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — A reporter was pushed to the ground, handcuffed and arrested for trespassing while covering a news conference about the derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals in Ohio.

NewsNation posted video of correspondent Evan Lambert being arrested Wednesday in the gymnasium of an elementary school in East Palestine where Gov. Mike DeWine was giving an update about the accident.

Lambert was held for about five hours before being released from jail, NewsNation reported.

“I’m doing fine right now. It’s been an extremely long day,” Lambert said after his release. “No journalist expects to be arrested when you’re doing your job, and I think that’s really important that that doesn’t happen in our country.”

At the end of his news conference, DeWine said he didn’t authorize the arrest and reporters have “every right” to report during briefings.

“If someone was stopped from doing that, or told they could not do that, that was wrong,” DeWine said.

A following statement from the governor’s office said DeWine didn’t see the incident because a bank of cameras blocked his view but he did hear a “disagreement toward the back of the gymnasium.”

DeWine “has always respected the media’s right to report live before, during, and after his press briefings” the statement said.

Mike Viqueira, NewsNation’s Washington Bureau chief, called the arrest an infuriating violation of the First Amendment.

The Washington, D.C.-based Lambert could still face charges of disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing, NewsNation said.

The Columbiana County Sheriff’s Office administration said the arrest was made by officers from the East Palestine Police Department. A message seeking comment from the department was not immediately returned.

About 50 train cars, including 10 carrying hazardous materials, derailed in a fiery crash Friday night on the edge of East Palestine. Federal investigators say a mechanical issue with a rail car axle caused the derailment.
[....]
The news conference started more than two hours late and DeWine started speaking at the same instant Lambert had to do a live broadcast from the back of the gym, Preston Swigart, a photographer who was with Lambert, told NewsNation.

Swigart said police officers approached Lambert and asked him to stop talking. Lambert finished the live report but was then asked to leave by authorities, who tried to forcibly remove him from the event, NewsNation reported.

“From their standpoint, he didn’t obey orders,” Swigart said. “Gymnasiums are echoey and loud and sound kind of carries, so I’m guessing that they just didn’t like the fact that there was sound competing with the governor speaking, even though it was all the way at the other end of the room.”

The anchor handling the report said she heard the reporter saying, “The governor has just started speaking. I’m being told that I have to quit my report” before it was cut short.

Video captured by NewsNation affiliate WKBN-TV showed Lambert on his face on the ground being handcuffed. He was then taken outside and placed in the back of a sheriff’s patrol car.

Reporter arrested during news event on Ohio train derailment

A reporter was pushed to the ground, handcuffed and arrested for trespassing while covering a news conference about the derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals in Ohio.

apnews.com

 

[Sejanus]

Overzealous cops getting their jollies.
Suspend them without pay.

ETA: okay this adds a little bit of context that certainly helps. Enjoy...


In all of my years as a bona fide reporter we understood that when you are given a lawful command you comply with it at the time. This is how you deescalate things immediately. Then you take them to task over it later after everything can receive a full review. Things here did get out of hand but I have to change my initial view and roll it back somewhat. This knucklehead was refusing to comply which as we know every time you do that the outcome is fairly predictable resulting in handcuffs.

He was disruptive and was bordering on belligerence.
At that point all bets are off in any support I can throw at him.

 

[Crazy Cat Lady]

Overzealous cops getting their jollies.
Suspend them without pay.

ETA: okay this adds a little bit of context that certainly helps. Enjoy...


In all of my years as a bona fide reporter we understood that when you are given a lawful command you comply with it at the time. This is how you deescalate things immediately. Then you take them to task over it later after everything can receive a full review. Things here did get out of hand but I have to change my initial view and roll it back somewhat. This knucklehead was refusing to comply which as we know every time you do that the outcome is fairly predictable resulting in handcuffs.

He was disruptive and was bordering on belligerence.
At that point all bets are off in any support I can throw at him.

He was arrogant and seemed like he was spoiling for a fight by trying to provoke the cops.

 

[Sejanus]

He was arrogant and seemed like he was spoiling for a fight by trying to provoke the cops.

Absolutely.
Saw a few dillholes like him during my days reporting.
Trying to pass off attitude as competency.
Always 100% detectable.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Couple of updates:

3 additional chemicals discovered on East Palestine train derailment​

‘We basically nuked a town’: 3 more chemicals discovered in Ohio train derailment

First News was recently informed of three more chemicals that were on the Norfolk Southern train that derailed in East Palestine just over a week ago — and we are being told that those chemic…

www.wkbn.com

Worried residents near Ohio train derailment report dead fish and chickens as authorities say it's safe to return​

Residents near Ohio train derailment report dead fish and chickens as authorities say it's safe to return

Residents around East Palestine fear they, their animals and water sources were exposed to hazardous chemicals.

www.nbcnews.com

East Palestine train derailment: What we know about the situation​

East Palestine train derailment: What we know about the situation

The environmental and community impacts of a fiery train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, are still being examined. Here's what we know.

www.cincinnati.com

 

[Satanica]

I'll add this thread to the one I started this morning titled Recap: East Palestine Derailment in General.

 

[Kelli]

I said yesterday I didn’t think there was a train derailment thread. Sorry! I now see this was here Friday…

 

[Satanica]

It was confusing, because da nooze didn't seem to want to post the details of the train derailment and now we know why they were trying to cover it up. If you go to the link in my other thread you will understand it's much more serious with much more wide ranging consequences than authorities would like to admit.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

It's been ALL OVER the news. Not sure what you're talking about.

Skyrocketing pet deaths after Ohio train derailment has residents questioning chemicals’ long-term health effects​

Pets and wildlife — including an estimated 3,500 fish — are dying in the wake of the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, according to reports, as residents become more worried the spill could have long-term effects on their health.

A train carrying 20 cars containing hazardous chemicals derailed on Feb. 3 with 10 of the cars toppling over, spilling noxious chemicals into the air and water supply. Five of the cars were carrying toxic vinyl chloride, which was subsequently burned to prevent an explosion.

“We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open,” hazardous materials specialist Sil Caggiano told local outlet WKBN, adding some of the other hazardous materials spilled in the train crash are dangerous to humans.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has estimated 3,500 fish died across 7.5 miles of streams in the first five days after the burn.

Skyrocketing pet deaths after Ohio train derailment has residents questioning chemicals’ long-term health effects

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has estimated 3,500 fish died across 7.5 miles of streams in the first five days after the burn and the local humane society is fielding non-stop calls.

nypost.com

 

[Satanica]

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Locals near Ohio train derailment feel ‘very uneasy’ over health concerns​

Residents living near the site of the East Palestine train derailment are blasting the Biden Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for their response to the crisis.

Local and federal officials have insisted tests show the air and water supply is safe to breathe and drink following the Feb. 3 incident — where authorities burned tons of hazardous chemicals to prevent an explosion — but many residents are reporting negative effects to their health and remain skeptical.

“The sentiment from the residents seems to be they’re super annoyed at how the federal government, how the Biden administration in particular is handling the situation,” said video journalist Nick Sortor.

The main chemical burned was vinyl chloride, an ingredient used to produce plastics and PVC, which has been shown to cause cancer at high levels of exposure.

“The EPA in particular won’t talk to any of the residents. You have people that are right up there [next to the crash site]. I spoke with a small business owner — their business was right in front of where the explosion was. They can’t get anything out of the EPA,”.

Locals near Ohio train derailment feel ‘very uneasy’ over health concerns

Residents living near the site of the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment are blasting the Biden Administration and the EPA for their response to the crisis.

nypost.com

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Charges dropped against reporter arrested at news conference​

(AP) – A cable news reporter pushed to the ground and handcuffed while covering a news conference about a train derailment in Ohio will no longer face charges, the state’s attorney general said Wednesday.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost dismissed trespassing and resisting arrest charges against NewsNation correspondent Evan Lambert, saying he had every right to be at the press conference.

Lambert was arrested and then jailed for five hours on Feb. 8 after authorities said he was told to stop his live broadcast and refused their orders to leave the news conference with Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine.

Charges dropped against reporter arrested at news conference

A cable news reporter pushed to the ground and handcuffed while covering a news conference about a train derailment in Ohio will no longer face charges, the state’s attorney general said Wednesday.

www.wsaz.com

 

[CancerMan]

Not a huge conspiracy, but I find it interesting .


Vinyl Chloride Toxicological profile version changes:
August 1989
April 1993
Sept 1997
July 2006
January 2023
Sometimes after Feb 6th 2023





February 6th, 2023 Capture (Before Change)


February 15th, 2023 Capture


Here are the changes I notice:

• Removed

1. ATSDR Information Center Phone Number
2. Highlights section
   

   Exposure to vinyl chloride occurs mainly in the workplace. Breathing high levels of vinyl chloride for short periods of time can cause dizziness, sleepiness, unconsciousness, and at extremely high levels can cause death. Breathing vinyl chloride for long periods of time can result in permanent liver damage, immune reactions, nerve damage, and liver cancer. This substance has been found in at least 616 of the 1,662 National Priority List sites identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

• "What is vinyl chloride?" section:

1. Removed:
   

   Vinyl chloride is also known as chloroethene, chloroethylene, and ethylene monochloride.

• "How might I be exposed to vinyl chloride?" section:

1. Added:
   

   You can also be exposed from cigarette and cigar smoke.

2. Changed:
   

   Drinking water from contaminated wells.
   You can be exposed to very low levels of vinyl chloride in drinking water.

• "How can vinyl chloride affect my health?" Section:

1. Added:
   

   The levels of vinyl chloride typically found in the environment are lower than levels known to cause health problems.
   Highly exposed workers have also developed a specific type of cancer known as angiosarcoma of the liver.

2. Changed:
   

   Some people who work with vinyl chloride have nerve damage and develop immune reactions.
   Some people who work with vinyl chloride have nerve damage and develop alterations in immunity.
   Animal studies have shown that long-term exposure to vinyl chloride can damage the sperm and testes.
   Animal studies have shown that long-term exposure to vinyl chloride can damage the sperm and testes.

• Changed "Can vinyl chloride cause cancer?" Section: to include links instead of description.
  

  How likely is vinyl chloride to cause cancer?​

  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has determined that vinyl chloride is a known carcinogen. Studies in workers who have breathed vinyl chloride over many years showed an increased risk of liver, brain, lung cancer, and some cancers of the blood have also been observed in workers.
  

  Can vinyl chloride cause cancer?​

  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has classified vinyl chloride as known to be a human carcinogen (cause cancer).
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has classified vinyl chloride as a known human carcinogen by the inhalation route of exposure. It has also classified it as carcinogenic by the oral route and likely to be carcinogenic by the dermal route.
  The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) determined that vinyl chloride is carcinogenic to humans.

• Removed:
  

  How can vinyl chloride affect children?​

  It has not been proven that vinyl chloride causes birth defects in humans, but studies in animals suggest that vinyl chloride might affect growth and development. Animal studies also suggest that infants and young children might be more susceptible than adults to vinyl chloride-induced cancer.
  

  Has the federal government made recommendations to protect human health?​

  Vinyl chloride is regulated in drinking water, food, and air. The EPA requires that the amount of vinyl chloride in drinking water not exceed 0.002 milligrams per liter (mg/L) of water.
  The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has set a limit of 1 part vinyl chloride per 1 million parts of air (1 ppm) in the workplace.
  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the vinyl chloride content of various plastics. These include plastics that carry liquids and plastics that contact food. The limits for vinyl chloride content vary depending on the nature of the plastic and its use.
  

  References​

  Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). 2006. Toxicological Profile for Vinyl Chloride. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.

• Changed:
  

  Where can I get more information?​

  If you have questions or concerns, please contact your community or state health or environmental quality department or:
  For more information, contact: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Office of Innovation and Analytics, Toxicology Section 4770 Buford Highway Chamblee, GA 30341-3717 Phone: 1-800-CDC-INFO 888-232-6348 (TTY) Email: Contact CDC-INFO
  ATSDR can also tell you the location of occupational and environmental health clinics. These clinics specialize in recognizing, evaluating, and treating illnesses resulting from exposure to hazardous substances.
  

  For more information?​

  Call CDC-INFO at 1-800-232-4636, or submit your question online at https://wwwn.cdc.gov/dcs/ContactUs/Form
  Go to ATSDR’s Toxicological Profile for Vinyl Chloride: https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/ToxProfiles/ToxProfiles.aspx?id=282&tid;=51
  Go to ATSDR’s Toxic Substances Portal: https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/index.aspx
  Find & contact your ATSDR Regional Representative at http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/DRO/dro_org.html

 

[Satanica]

A lot more has been posted in the thread at Rigorous Intuition, and it will keep growing.

rigorousintuition.ca • View topic - Ohio Derailment - TOXINS Dispersed.

www.rigorousintuition.ca

 

[CancerMan]

I have also noticed, that they moved lots of info to the attached pdfs



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Merge meh pls

Americans , you can sleep sound!
Who needs qualified professionals , when you can have multi-culti

In keeping with the NIEHS mission, SRP's teams of diverse professionals develop, test, and implement unique, solution-oriented approaches to address complex environmental health problems.

Another funny thing, while they keep reducing the length of the readily available info to minimum, and doin damage control for NSC the full PDF version is much less optimistic.

4200 letters vs 750 000

Top 3 owners of NSC:
Vanguard
JP Morgan
BlackRock

 

[Turd Fergusen]

East Palestine mayor rips Biden for visiting Ukraine over Ohio train site​

The mayor of East Palestine has ripped President Biden for heading to Ukraine for a surprise visit instead of the scene of Ohio’s toxic train derailment.

Mayor Trent Conaway accused Biden of abandoning his domestic responsibilities after the 80-year-old president popped over to Kyiv on Monday to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

“That was the biggest slap in the face,” Conaway told Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Monday night.

“That tells you right now he doesn’t care about us,” the mayor continued.

“He can send every agency he wants to, but I found out this morning that he was in Ukraine giving millions of dollars away to people over there and not to us … on Presidents’ Day in our country, so I’m furious.”

East Palestine mayor rips Biden for visiting Ukraine over Ohio train site

Mayor Trent Conaway accused Biden of abandoning his domestic responsibilities, calling the president’s decision not to visit, “the biggest slap in the face.”

nypost.com

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Goya ships ready-made meals to ‘forgotten’ East Palestine after train derailment contamination​

Goya Foods is shipping ready-to-serve meals and beverages to East Palestine so those affected by the Ohio train derailment don’t have to worry about ingesting contaminated meals.

The New Jersey-based company is sending food and drinks that don’t require tap water to prepare, including pre-hydrated beans and coconut water that contains potassium.

“The impact of this disaster is devastating on both the community and the environment. East Palestine has been treated like a forgotten town, and while this may be a small community, it is not a forgotten community by Goya,” said Bob Unanue, the company’s president and CEO, said in a statement Monday.

Goya is distributing the meals with the help of community resource center Way Station, Unanue said.

The multi-billion-dollar company’s announcement comes just two days after the federal government finally sent Federal Emergency Management Agency officials to the site of the toxic train derailment despite originally claiming the tragedy didn’t qualify for assistance.

Goya ships ready-made meals to ‘forgotten’ East Palestine after train derailment contamination

“East Palestine has been treated like a forgotten town, and while this may be a small community, it is not a forgotten community by Goya,” the company said.

nypost.com

 

[Sejanus]

Goya used to make one of the best rice puddings around.
Then they had to go and discontinue it.
Broke my heart

 

[Satanica]

The Ohio Train
Derailment
Is Probably
NOT
What You Think

The basic framework that
governments and their
their cronies use to steal
things is...

Intentionally cause a crisis.
Ramp up fear porn.
Wait for hysteria to
whip people up into a frenzy.
Push a "solution" always involving
taking something from people.

Evidence shows the
Ohio train derailment
is no different.

To be clear:
Ecological damage definitely occured.
This is bad. But it could get way worse
if we buy into the hysteria.

Only 4 tanks leaked.
And there is misinformation about
what is actually in the tanks that leaked.


Tank 1:
Ethylhexyl Acrylate
Not toxic. Leakage amount is unknown.


Tank 2:
Isobutylene
This is the substance that was burned,
and what caused the plume. Eco-damage
is negligable after burning.


Tank 3:
Butyl Acrylate
Major leak. Rapid dispersing down
the Ohio river. This is the rainbow
stuff you see on top of the water.
It eventually biodegrades.


Tank 4:
Anti-freeze
This is the most toxic of the
chemicals. Good news is that it
can't Aerosolize, so it's not in
the air. And it will disperse.

There is no evidence
of Vinyl Chloride
in the ground
This was burned. When it burns,
it releases hydrochloric acid
and phosgene. These are toxic, but
they disperse. Eco damage is minimal.

So what is actually going on here?
It appears as though this is part of a
larger farm land heist and/or a
food supply attack.

December 2022:
Amish farmer fined
for clean farming
in Pennsylvania
Was legally selling raw milk &
beef from unvaxed cattle.
He fought the fines in court and won.
This is a problem for those who seek control.
They cannot have people marching to their own beat.

“Never let a crisis
go to waste”
—Eric Holder

Be Careful
The relevant agencies in US & Canada may use this as a ploy to prevent land from being farmed. "It's for your safety" is the go-to catch phrase of thieves.

Who benefits from doing this?
Think about it: crash the price of farm land, bankrupt farmers, and buy the land for pennies. This is a tried-and-true scam tactic (Bolsheviks, others).

Have we learned anything since 2020?

Do not buy
into hysteria!

[Video clip at link]




https://www.heropaul.com/ohio-derailment

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Trump hands out ‘Trump Water’ during East Palestine toxic rail spill visit​

Former President Donald Trump handed out bottles of “Trump Water” to residents of East Palestine, Ohio on Wednesday, claiming they had been “betrayed” by President Biden’s handling of the toxic train derailment in their community.

The 76-year-old Republican showed up with 13 pallets of the Trump-branded spring water — totaling 14,000 bottles — amid fears the Feb. 3 derailment and controlled burn of toxic chemicals had contaminated the air and drinking supply.

“We’re bringing thousands of bottles of water — Trump Water … We have it in trucks and we brought some in my plane… You’re going to have plenty of water for a long time,” he told a crowd at the local firehouse, roughly half a mile from the derailment site.

Donning his trademark “Make America Great Again” hat, Trump also vowed to provide food and cleaning supplies — and insisted to residents: “You are not forgotten.”

Trump hands out ‘Trump Water’ during East Palestine toxic rail spill visit

The 76-year-old Republican showed up with pallets of “Trump Water” amid fears the Feb. 3 derailment and controlled burn of toxic chemicals had contaminated the air and drinking supply.

nypost.com

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Buttigieg visits East Palestine, Ohio, as probe of train derailment continues​

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is in East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday, as the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is expected to release the initial results of its investigation into the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous substances.

The 38-car train that crashed Feb. 3 has sparked serious health and environmental concerns for the area's residents, who have expressed frustration over the slowness of the federal government's response to the crisis.

The initial NTSB investigation results found the train was traveling 47 miles per hour, slower than the 50 miles per hour speed limit. The train was alerted three times by an alarm that was trigged by a hot axle.

Buttigieg arrived at the site of the derailment just before 8 a.m. local time Thursday. He is expected to meet with local residents and receive an update on the NTSB's investigation.

Buttigieg visits East Palestine, Ohio, as probe of train derailment continues

Buttigieg said the"resilience, the resolve and the decency" of East Palestine residents has been "inspiring."

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Pete Buttigieg rep tells ‘aggressive’ reporter to turn off camera at Ohio derail site​

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Biden will not take trip to Ohio train derailment site after Trump visit: White House​

President Biden still has no plans to visit residents of East Palestine, Ohio, after a toxic chemical spill there caused by a train derailment nearly three weeks ago, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Thursday — one day after former President Donald Trump traveled to the state.

In response to repeated questions, Jean-Pierre reiterated that Biden, 80, has made no travel arrangements, but is “getting briefed pretty regularly” and taking the situation “very seriously.”

“He offered federal assistance and directed his team to stay on top of this,” the press secretary said. “At this time, I don’t have anything to read out or announce on travel to Ohio.”

Biden will not take trip to Ohio train derailment site after Trump visit: White House

“He offered federal assistance and directed his team to stay on top of this,” the press secretary said. “At this time, I don’t have anything to read out or announce on trave…

nypost.com

 

[Sejanus]

Biden should have been there within 48 hours.
Huge blunder and misstep.
Whoever advised should be fired.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Biden says he has no plans to visit site of toxic Ohio train derailment — and hasn’t been invited​

As he prepared to board Marine One for a weekend getaway to Delaware on Friday, President Biden told reporters that he has no plans to visit East Palestine, Ohio — and that he hasn’t been invited amid rancor over the administration’s handling of the toxic train derailment.

“At this moment, no,” Biden, 80, responded outside the White House when asked if he had any plans to visit the town near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, where dangerous chemicals spilled onto the ground and toxic smoke billowed into the air after a Norfolk Southern train derailed on Feb. 3.

The toxic spill and ensuing fire forced the evacuation of roughly 5,000 panicked residents. Tens of thousands of animals in the area have also reportedly died in the weeks after the derailment, troubling residents.

Biden faced strident criticism from Republicans over his decision to visit Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv earlier this week before touring East Palestine, where residents remain concerned over possible long-term health effects from the train derailment.

Biden says he has no plans to visit site of toxic Ohio train derailment — and hasn’t been invited

“The idea that we’re not engaged is simply not there. In addition, there was not a request for me to go out, even before I was heading over to Kyiv,” Biden argued.

nypost.com

 

[Turd Fergusen]

‘Sound like Mickey Mouse’: East Palestine residents’ shock illnesses after derailment​

EAST PALESTINE, OHIO – Wade Lovett’s been having trouble breathing since the Feb. 3 Norfolk South train derailment and toxic explosion here. In fact, his voice sounds as if he’s been inhaling helium.

“Doctors say I definitely have the chemicals in me but there’s no one in town who can run the toxicological tests to find out which ones they are,” Lovett, 40, an auto detailer, said in an extremely high-pitched voice. “My voice sounds like Mickey Mouse. My normal voice is low. It’s hard to breathe, especially at night. My chest hurts so much at night I feel like I’m drowning. I cough up phlegm a lot. I lost my job because the doctor won’t release me to go to work.”

Despite his health woes, Lovett and his fiancée, Tawnya Irwin, 45, spent last Thursday delivering bottled water to locals. They picked up new cases outside a home on East Clark Street which has become the heart of East Palestine’s homegrown campaign to fight back against the forces that upended the lives of roughly 4,700 residents and their animals.

‘Sound like Mickey Mouse’: East Palestine residents’ shock illnesses after derailment

East Palestine, Ohio, residents are uniting to fight for their town to be treated fairly — by the Biden administration and Norfolk Southern.

nypost.com

 

[cubby]

Why does Biden need to be invited? He should have just gone but we all know he's got more important things to do, like relaxing in Delaware.

 

[Satanica]

They didn't vote for him, so he doesn't give a shit about them.

 

[Sejanus]

As president it is his moral obligation and duty to go there.
This is a remarkably bad look.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

EPA not testing for dioxins, scientist calls reason ‘lame’​

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (WKBN) – Scientist Stephen Lester says there is no doubt in his mind that dioxins were released during the Feb. 6 controlled burn of vinyl chloride. He says the EPA’s reasoning for not testing is a “lame excuse” and “wrong.”

According to United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 administrator Debra Shore, the agency will not test for the highly toxic chemical compound dioxins at this time.

“Dioxins are ubiquitous in the environment. They were here before the accident, they will be here after, and we don’t have baseline information in this area to do a proper test. But, we are talking to our toxicologist and looking into it,” Shore said.

Dioxins refers to a group of toxic chemical compounds. Dioxins are highly toxic and can cause cancer, reproductive and developmental problems, damage to the immune system, and can interfere with hormones.

“I think they’re reluctant to test, because they know they will find it, and they will be put in a place where they have to address it,” said Lester, science director at the Center for Health, Environment and Justice.

EPA not testing for dioxins, scientist calls reason ‘lame’

Scientist Stephen Lester says there is no doubt in his mind that dioxins were released during the Feb. 6 controlled burn of vinyl chloride. He says the EPA’s reasoning for not testing is a “lame ex…

www.wkbn.com

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Rail workers cleaning toxic Ohio derailment getting sick, unions leaders say as they press WH to do more​

Workers cleaning up the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, are getting sick, leaders of the nation’s largest rail unions said Wednesday — as they pressed the Biden administration for more safety measures.

The presidents of a dozen unions met with administration officials to state their case and express concern — as a new independent study found that the chemicals spilled in East Palestine during the Feb. 3 derailment could pose long-term health risks.

“My hope is the stakeholders in this industry can work towards the same goals related to safety when transporting hazardous materials by rail,” Mike Baldwin, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, said of the meeting with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Federal Railroad Administration head Amit Bose, CNBC said in a report.

“Today’s meeting is an opportunity for labor to share what our members are seeing and dealing with day to day,” Baldwin said. “The railroaders’ labor represents … the employees who make it safe and they must have the tools to do so.”

Rail workers cleaning toxic Ohio derailment getting sick, unions leaders say as they press WH to do more

The meeting comes after labor leaders claimed that workers at the site of the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment have fallen ill with “migraines and nausea” and do not have crucial prot…

nypost.com