Chemical Pollution From East Palestine Train Wreck Blanketed Third Of The Country

As suspected "at the time", the damage from the now famous train wreck 16 months ago in East Palestine Ohio was much bigger than originally "thought". Thought by defending story smoothers that is.

Brilliant move to set that spill on fire wasn't it. 😃

Even the political sides were suspicious!

And Earth is still warming from the last Great Ice Age that "ended" 11,000 years ago!

Chemical pollution emitting from the East Palestine, Ohio, train crash in 2023 rained down on 16 different states, according to a study released Wednesday.

A Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed and crashed in East Palestine in February 2023, sending plumes of black smoke rising over Ohio and Pennsylvania. The smoke carried the chemicals and polluted 16 states, spreading over roughly 540,000 square miles of land, according to a new study published in Environmental Research Letters.

“I didn’t expect to see an impact this far out,” David Gay, lead author of the study, told The Washington Post. “There’s more going on here than most people would have guessed, including me.”

The chemicals emitted from the crash rained down in regions of the Midwest and East Coast, affecting states including Tennessee, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New England and South Carolina, according to the study. Individuals located or living closer to the crash reported various health effects, including rashes, headaches and nausea.

Chemical Pollution From East Palestine Train Wreck Blanketed Third Of The Country, Study Reveals

a reply to: xuenchen

So what? Ohio wanted all the pollution for themselfs... Sharing is caring

originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: xuenchen

So what? Ohio wanted all the pollution for themselfs... Sharing is caring

🤣🤣🤣

a reply to: xuenchen

Northfolk Southern’s railroads, their train, they should pay to do any type of cleanup and payouts to localities effected.

originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: xuenchen

So what? Ohio wanted all the pollution for themselfs... Sharing is caring

I'll be glad to send you over a good helping of herpes or syphilis for your birthday.

a reply to: xuenchen

Whoever made the decision to allow them to burn that stuff off needs to be prosecuted. Everyone in the chain of command.

Under no circumstances should it be allowable to release a chemical weapon over populated areas.

It was a huge failure of Incident response and emergency management.

The final NTSB board meeting will be June 25th. Then we'll have to wait for the final report to be released.

NTSB

originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: xuenchen

Northfolk Southern’s railroads, their train, they should pay to do any type of cleanup and payouts to localities effected.

(from the article
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Rail Company Reaches $310 Million Settlement With Biden EPA For East Palestine Derailment

originally posted by: xuenchen

originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: xuenchen

Northfolk Southern’s railroads, their train, they should pay to do any type of cleanup and payouts to localities effected.

(from the article

🎥
Rail Company Reaches $310 Million Settlement With Biden EPA For East Palestine Derailment

$310 m is chump change. Once again, we taxpayers will forced to take on the burdens of major corporation's failures.

"Total cleanup costs are expected to exceed $1 billion, according to the EPA release."

What a sweet deal they got; thanks, Branden.

a reply to: nugget1

No doubt that they underpaid.

But it looks like there were two settlements, one to the row and another to the victims.

The railroad previously agreed to a $600 million settlement with victims of the derailment in April.

They need to be on the hook for whatever cost is incurred, no reason it should be settled.

originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: nugget1

No doubt that they underpaid.

But it looks like there were two settlements, one to the row and another to the victims.

The railroad previously agreed to a $600 million settlement with victims of the derailment in April.

They need to be on the hook for whatever cost is incurred, no reason it should be settled.

There are superfund projects all across the nation that the government is footing the bills for cleaning up. This incident will be no different.

a reply to: xuenchen
I remember thinking it looked like someone had opened a doom portal at the time-

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What a monumental sh1tshow.

You people are exaggerating. East Palestine is just fine.
Mayor Pete went there and made everything OK.

originally posted by: ColeYounger2
You people are exaggerating. East Palestine is just fine.
Mayor Pete went there and made everything OK.

It's true! He wore fancy booties and everything!

Remember when they said Fukushima was going to kill the Pacific?
Remember the American West Coast was going to be uninhabitable?

Well? It's been 13 years... Tick tock...



This "disaster" is no different. This was the end of Ohio! Well? Where's all the bodies?
People absorbed more chemicals in the food they ate today than they ever received from this spill.
I don't mean to be an ass but the doom porn overreactions are off the chart.

a reply to: Bluntone22

The release wasn't an immediate death sentence. But phosgene is a highly toxic chemical weapon. They were banned for a reason.

I'd be willing to bet if a study were to be conducted, a significant increase in cancers, still-births, birth defects, and other afflictions will be found in the areas that the cloud passed over.

a reply to: xuenchen
Well, this is my area of expertise. Not trying to rain on this. This claim makes it sound worse than it was and it was plenty bad enough without a thing. I am miffed at the EPA over it. I am miffed at O'biden for it and I am miffed that the media didn't give much of a damn because it was Ohio middle class folks and not some alphabet soup group. Other states joined OH like PA, KY and WVA in getting the smoke plume with basically PVC liquid floating from the sky and making plastic in midair.


That one third of the nation for me is a reach based on the data I look at for pollution. I know it was pure hell for a long way from that wreck, no doubt. But Alaska is a third of the US all by itself. I am sure it will help if this gets more people to pay attention, but claims like that can hurt the perception of the usable data we will have to "circle back to" so we can deal with the asshats for the way they screwed E Palestine OH.

a reply to: charlest2

You'd do that for me? That's so sweet!
maybe i have some HIV left for you...

a reply to: CriticalStinker

Just burn the stupid U in USA, no one belives in that crap anymore.
All tha problems will be gone...

Yeah well #ty neighbors, but at least you don't have to play pretend anymore....

a reply to: xuenchen

And Earth is still warming from the last Great Ice Age that "ended" 11,000 years ago!

The Earth is still in an ice age.

Specifically within an interglacial period known as the "Holocene", which started around 11,700 years ago.