EPA Announces It Is Taking Control of East Palestine Train Wreck Site – IOTW Report

EPA Announces It Is Taking Control of East Palestine Train Wreck Site

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The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it will take over the response to the train derailment disaster near East Palestine, Ohio, that set hazardous chemicals on fire and sent plumes of black smoke into the air.

Starting Thursday, Norfolk Southern Railway’s so-far voluntary cleanup of the toxic wreck site becomes mandatory and governed by an EPA-approved plan. 

The agency issued an order to the rail company requiring it to develop and present plans to identify and clean up contaminated soil and water, reimburse the EPA for cleaning services it will offer to East Palestine residents and businesses, post certain information about the derailment and cleanup efforts online, and cover the agency’s costs for cleanup-related work. Details

16 Comments on EPA Announces It Is Taking Control of East Palestine Train Wreck Site

  1. After hurricane Katrina anybody and everybody who could, responded. President Bush showed up a few days later and the media destroyed him for not getting there sooner. No one, and I mean NO ONE credited all the Federal, State, and private agencies who gave it their all without being asked or ordered. None of the Katrina heroics have happened in East Palestine have happened yet and the MSM is silent. Why? Dirty rotten commie cock suckers.

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  2. This is being done to try to upstage President Trump’s visit and Puddin Brain’s EPA will turn this into yet another Fustercluck of this administration, requiring multple tries before the cleanup is finally completed. Hell it was actually beneath Puddin Brain to even make a visit to this disaster at any point since it has happened by a small town and not a large city where he could make a major photo op out of a large city visit.

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  3. My take: US government is “oh shit, lets see if it will blow over”. Three weeks later. “well damn, we have a situation because Trump is offering assistance.”

    Meanwhile Biden is in Ukraine to ensure money laundering is going to go through.

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  4. A friend who works for a neighboring jurisdiction and I were discussing how all levels of government have increasingly become focused on “gold shovel” projects, while neglecting maintenance and preservation of their existing infrastructure. Thankfully and to my admiration, the jurisdiction I work for is an island of relative sanity in a sea of this idiocy.

    The EPA is now there for one reason and one reason only and it has absolutely nothing to do with any concern for either the residents or the environment. They are there for show. It’s all about the photo op.

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  5. The only way out of this is to vote for President Trump in 2024,and I mean all of this shit and I mean all of it. PHenry can make a list of what they are planing to do,he the best at it. (The keeper of the list)
    At this point we are fucked, they have control of every thing including the courts. They want to kill us and they are not kidding.
    Who is going to come and save us from this nightmare, Ron from Florida,fat chance he is part of the plan,yes he is a good governor but he is deep state and will sell us out as soon as he gets a chance,just watch.
    Trump 2024 or it is all over.

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  6. In the past year or so, four senior scientists resigned from the EPA because (paraphrasing) “Approvals can be bought”. I would guess everything else is up for sale as well.

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