Ohio train derailment aftermath mishandled: Whistleblower.

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Apparently, the East Palestine derailment was not properly handled by the EPA or local authorities.  Some have conjectured the aftermath has been 'covered-up.'

From FoxBusiness.com: East Palestine resident says whistleblower is 'tip of the iceberg' for disaster response 'cover-up'
 

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East Palestine, Ohio, residents are expressing frustration after learning that the emergency response to the toxic train derailment last year was riddled with mistakes.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is disputing whistleblower claims of mistakes and "no confidence" in early data collected from the site where a Norfolk-Southern train hauling caustic materials derailed along the Pennsylvania-Ohio border.

A person who said he helped craft the technology and interpret data from advanced radiological sensors on a high-tech EPA plane used to survey the damage and take hazmat readings told The Associated Press the aircraft was enlisted too late. In turn, the whistleblower told the outlet, it may have been unnecessary to burn off toxic vinyl chloride from five rail cars in a controlled release.

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It seems that only one of the five rail cars containing the highly toxic chemicals was ever in danger of fire... but instead...
 

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"What's crazy is, from the get-go, there was only one vinyl chloride car that was ever in danger of polymerization, is what we were told, that was ever at risk of overheating. Never five at any one point in time," Murphy pointed out.

"It's just a matter of money. It's cheaper to throw a match and blow it up than it is to truck it out and take it out appropriately. You know, that's lost revenue for Norfolk Southern," she continued. "The truth is going to come out and it's going to be a slow process, but we're all suffering. In the meantime, what's the cost going to be to us while we're waiting for the real truth to come out?"

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Perhaps this is what was behind the "Settlement" off we discussed here: https://denyignorance.com/Thread-Ohio-Tr...88#pid5188

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This has always bothered me, I have a daughter in eastern Ohio. There was so much wrong going on from day one.

Perhaps we should be protesting Clean, Clean East Palestine

President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency waited nearly a week to send up a special plane to test the air and water around East Palestine, Ohio following last year’s toxic chemical train spill — and officials tried to cover up the delay once they did get around to launching it, a whistleblower has said.
Former EPA contractor Robert Kroutil came forward Tuesday with his shocking claims to NewsNation and the Associated Press, raising fresh questions about the White House’s much-scrutinized response to the Feb. 3, 2023, disaster.
According to Kroutil, who resigned this past January, the EPA’s Airborne Spectral Photometric Environmental Collection Technology (ASPECT) plane should have been in the air “in the first five to 10 hours after the incident and while the fires are still burning.”
 What’s more, Kroutil said, ASPECT program manager Paige Delgado ordered the plane’s operator to shut down the chemical sensors when it flew over the creeks in East Palestine — even though officials were concerned about toxins seeping into those waterways and potentially fouling drinking water supplies downstream on the Ohio River.
Kroutil added his satellite link to the plane’s instruments confirmed those sensors were turned off.
“I’ve done 180 different responses,” he told NewsNation. “I’ve never heard the program manager tell us to turn the sensor off when collecting data.”

https://nypost.com/2024/05/14/us-news/epa-waited-days-to-deploy-data-gathering-plane-after-east-palestine-spill-whistleblower/