Whatever happens, these people in East Palestine are getting screwed.

Probably, a lot of other people are going to end up making money off the situation.

The Guardian:

A plan to test for toxic dioxins near the site of a February train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, is flawed and unlikely to find the dangerous substances, independent chemical pollution researchers in the US who reviewed the testing protocol told the Guardian.

Initial soil testing already revealed dioxin levels hundreds of times above the threshold that Environmental Protection Agency scientists have found poses a cancer risk, but that sampling was limited in scope.

Regulators have said further testing being conducted by the Norfolk Southern-funded contractor Arcadis US will provide a broader picture than the initial samples. But, among other problems, the plan relies on what experts characterized as an “unconventional” process to check for dioxins, and the results are “unlikely to give a complete picture”, of contamination in East Palestine, said Stephen Lester, a toxicologist with the Center for Health, Environment and Justice.

“It is very limited and I don’t think it’s going to answer the questions people in East Palestine have about dioxin exposure and the risk they have from dioxin exposure,” Lester added.

Arcadis noted its plan was developed “in consultation with” the EPA, but, among other concerns, dioxin researchers who reviewed the plan noted:

Arcadis will largely rely on visual inspections of the ground to find evidence of dioxins, instead of systematically testing soil samples that may contain the compounds, which is standard protocol.

The plan does not say how low the levels of dioxin the company will check for will be.

Testing will only be conducted up to two miles from the accident site when ash has been found up to 20 miles away.

The testing is limited to soil and does not include food or water.

Dioxins are highly persistent and can accumulate and stay for years in the environment or human bodies. The compounds are linked to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, nervous system disorders and other serious health problems. Soil and food contamination are considered to be among the most common exposure routes.

Dioxin researchers who reviewed the plan were most “troubled” by how Aracadis plans to visually inspect the ground for evidence of ash. If ash is found, then soil in that area will be tested.

“Visual inspection results will guide sample collection, with samples collected from both visible ash material and shallow soil if ash material is present,” the testing plan states.

But the controlled burn occurred about six weeks ago, and experts say most of its ash will have been blown away or washed away by precipitation.

“They’re not likely to find very much, if anything, because that is a very unusual approach for testing an area that has been contaminated,” Lester said.

The testing plan should include “structured sampling” in which a grid is created around the site and soil samples are taken about every 10 meters, said Linda Birnbaum, a former head of the US National Toxicology Program and EPA scientist.

The plan also limits testing to two miles around the site, but ash has been reported as far as 20 miles away, and dioxins are known to move long distances through the atmosphere.

“Why would you limit sampling to where you see ash on the ground … and why are they limiting it to two miles at max? Air travels further,” Birnbaum said.

Yeah, well.

I think we all know why.

There is no desire to fix any of this. The EPA wants it covered up, because they are implicated, and the global warmers want it covered up because it proves they don’t actually care about the environment (if they did, they would be focused on this, the Nord Stream bombing, and other tangible environmental crises happening under Joe Biden).

A bunch of people calling into the EPA hotline I FOIA’d were frustrated with that very limited scope, and reported experiencing issues further downwind.https://t.co/CdxT6HBizk pic.twitter.com/3ERxbirm7C

— Dave Levitan (@davelevitan) March 21, 2023

Although CNN, WaPo, and possibly others have finally begun doing some reporting on the East Palestine incident, which is believed to be the biggest environmental disaster in American history, The Guardian, a British paper, remains the only major outlet getting down into the nitty gritty and keeping the public informed on major developments.

I do not support the Guardian in general, as it is a leftist outlet. However, given that it is British and much less Jewish than its American counterparts, the staff doesn’t seem to understand that there are some events that can obviously be covered from a left-wing angle that the media is supposed to completely ignore and try to bury.

In this specific case, the writers at the Guardian have to be noticing the lack of coverage in the US. I would think they would also have to notice the fact that activists like Greta Thunberg are so aggressively ignoring this, and basically proving that the entire environmentalist movement is a hoax.

It would be fascinating if the Guardian were to publish a “Why Hasn’t Greta Mentioned East Palestine?” article, but I think that would definitely be expecting too much.

The Guardian:

Newly released data shows soil in the Ohio town of East Palestine – scene of a recent catastrophic train crash and chemical spill – contains dioxin levels hundreds of times greater than the exposure threshold above which Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scientists in 2010 found poses cancer risks.

The EPA at the time proposed lowering the cleanup threshold to reflect the science around the highly toxic chemical, but the Obama administration killed the rules, and the higher federal action threshold remains in place.

Though the dioxin levels in East Palestine are below the federal action threshold and an EPA administrator last week told Congress the levels are “very low”, chemical experts, including former EPA officials, who reviewed the data for the Guardian called them “concerning”.

The levels found in two soil samples are also up to 14 times higher than dioxin soil limits in some states, and the numbers point to wider contamination, said Linda Birnbaum, a former head of the US National Toxicology Program and EPA scientist.

“The levels are not screaming high, but we have confirmed that dioxins are in East Palestine’s soil,” she said. “The EPA must test the soil in the area more broadly.”

The data likely confirms fears that the controlled burn of vinyl chloride in the days after the train wreck in the town created dioxin and dispersed it throughout the area, experts say, though they stressed the new data is of limited value because only two soil samples were checked.

Dioxins are a class of chemicals that are a byproduct produced when chlorine is burned, which is a common industrial process in making products like PVC.

The chemicals are highly persistent and can accumulate and stay for years in the environment or human bodies. Among other health issues, the compounds are linked to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, nervous system disorders and other serious health problems. Soil and food contamination are considered to be among the most common exposure routes.

The fact that anyone can watch this situation, and watch Greta refuse to talk about it, and then continue to believe in the global warming hoax, absolutely proves that the masses of people are simply too stupid and easily manipulated for democracy to ever be viable.

Because of the stupidity of the masses, and their willingness to believe obvious and moronic lies, democracy will always be a system defined by corruption and exploitation.

Why dioxins in #EastPalestine are such a big concern https://t.co/zGaJQHMV3X

— Beth Schongar – Green (@BethSchongar) March 17, 2023