The US government claims that private corporations who donate huge amounts to politicians have an absolute right to poison the American population with no consequences.

Then we hear about how Russia and China are “corrupt.”

If a Chinese company did the East Palestine crash in China, many top people at the company would be imprisoned and probably executed.

This is a US story. And it’s only covered in the Guardian.

The Guardian:

Chemicals released during the East Palestine train wreck fires in February 2023 in Ohio were carried across 16 US states, new research of federal precipitation and pollution data shows.

Analysis of rain and snow samples collected from northern Wisconsin to Maine to North Carolina in the weeks following the crash found the highest levels of pH and some compounds recorded over the last ten years. That includes chloride, which researchers say was largely released during a controversial controlled burn of highly toxic vinyl chloride carried by the train.

Researchers expected to find some evidence of the burn 50 miles from the site, and the high levels of contamination in the samples across the vast range that it was spread was “very surprising” said David Gay, a University of Wisconsin researcher and lead author.

“We saw the chemical signal from this fire at a lot of sites and far away,” he added. “There was more than we ever would have guessed.”

…

Researchers were surprised to find “exceptionally high” pH levels in the rain as far away as northern Maine. Rain at a high enough pH can burn human skin and can harm flora and fauna, though Gay said the threat is minimal because it was a short-term spike.

He theorized the train’s cargo, which included medical cotton balls, frozen vegetables, and seminola likely contributed to the high pH because it released huge volumes of calcium, potassium and magnesium. Meanwhile, firefighting foam that may have been used at the scene also could have contributed high calcium levels that pushed up pH.

There are no limits on what corporations are allowed to do in terms of releasing poisons into the environment in America.

With this “green initiative,” the government is actively demanding that companies produce more toxic chemicals to pollute the water, and subsidizing them.

Is clean air and water too much to ask for?

Apparently it is, because if you ask for it, people in the US government will start talking about how cow farts are changing the weather.

🚨🇺🇸Breaking new study from the east Palestine train derailment shows pollutants spread quickly to other states and will keep testing until they think it’s safe from all the chemicals that were spewed thousands of feet in the air. pic.twitter.com/UI50Sih8pk

— Todd Paron🇺🇸🇬🇷🎧👽 (@tparon) June 20, 2024

Yeah.

They sort of dropped the ball on this one.

I think that’s fair to say.

AP:

The Environmental Protection Agency should conduct additional soil studies near the site of a toxic train derailment in Ohio and warn people it might not be safe to garden there after independent testing showed high levels of chemicals in locally grown garlic, a watchdog group said Thursday.

In a petition filed with the federal agency, the nonprofit Government Accountability Project argues that the EPA should have already followed up on the tests of gardens and crops in the city where the Norfolk Southern derailment took place.

“It is unconscionable that the EPA has not conducted its own testing on garden crops in East Palestine, nor have they sampled for dioxins in the home produce,” the nonprofit group’s senior environmental officer, Lesley Pacey, told The Associated Press in advance of the petition filing. “Yet, the EPA has told residents to garden and eat home produce as usual.”

The agency has been telling people it’s safe to garden since nearly three months after the February 2023 derailment, based on tests conducted by state agriculture officials at 31 locations around town and on surrounding farms. The officials tested winter wheat, malting barley, pasture grasses and rye from area farms.

“Residential soil sampling results are within typical ranges for the area, and garden plants are generally considered safe to eat,” the EPA said to the community.

Yeah, just eat that shit, whitey.

We don’t really have room for you in this country anyway, so if it kills you, it will help the the quest to change the weather.

🚨 #BREAKING: Biden’s NTSB Chair has just admitted to in a Senate hearing today the “controlled explosion” of the train in East Palestine, Ohio was UNNECESSARY

She says the chemical tank cars had already cooled and stabilized, meaning there was NO risk of an “uncontrolled… pic.twitter.com/Pq3d6Mcox0

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 6, 2024

Yeah, just live in this toxic waste. It’s fine.

We’ve gotta focus on pizza ovens.

CNN:

When government officials lifted an evacuation order for people who lived near the site of a train derailment and toxic spill in East Palestine, Ohio, last year, many homes held on to an odd odor.

It was a sickly-sweet smell, and it evoked comparisons to paint thinner, but fruitier, or maybe potpourri mixed with old perfume.

To reassure residents, the train’s operator, Norfolk Southern, and the US Environmental Protection Agency offered to check the air in homes for chemicals.

More than 600 households signed up. What they didn’t know was that the handheld devices used for the screening couldn’t detect one of the main chemicals spilled from the train — butyl acrylate — at levels that could irritate the eyes, nose, throat and lungs.

Case studies of people exposed to butyl acrylate in previous spills have raised questions about whether brief exposures may lead to longer-term health problems.

“I would say this is one of the most significant errors associated with the response,” said Dr. Andrew Whelton, an environmental engineer at Purdue University who has done independent testing in East Palestine. “It’s because of this so many people were chemically exposed when they returned.”

Although the EPA and Norfolk Southern’s contractor, CTEH, understood the limitations of the machines, they carried on with the home testing, according to an air testing plan drawn up by CTEH. They relied on smell to pick up on the presence of butyl acrylate at lower levels — although residents weren’t told that odors could indicate chemical exposure, according to an EPA official who answered questions on behalf of the agency on the condition that they not be named.

By the time the EPA adopted a more sensitive test and a lower standard for butyl acrylate, the home screening was nearly complete. People who’d had their homes checked weren’t told about subsequent adjustments to the air testing program and why they were made, according to CTEH and the EPA. They were never offered more indoor air testing.

“I had no idea,” said David Chick, who lives about a quarter of a mile from where the train wrecked and caught fire.

Chick thinks that few people in the village are aware of what happened and that confusing messages from the EPA have probably fueled division and distrust in the community. “The dynamic around town would be completely different if even 60% or 70% of the people knew that,” he said.

Butyl acrylate was one of a stew of toxic chemicals released into the soil, air and local waterways after a Norfolk Southern train flew off its tracks and caught fire on February 3, 2023, damaging at least 11 cars carrying hazardous materials, according to the EPA.

Two of the cars that derailed had been holding nearly 386,000 pounds of acrylates, strong-smelling, highly irritating chemicals that are used to make paints, coatings, caulks and sealants.

Many people know the olfactory assault of acrylates from nail salons, since some types of nail polish and nail products use them.

Two acrylates were spilled in East Palestine: butyl acrylate and ethylhexyl acrylate.

Surface water testing by the Ohio EPA found sky-high levels of acrylates in local creeks in the first few days after the derailment. Those levels tapered off and are undetectable now, based on recent testing, but the chemicals were still detectable in Sulphur Run through March 2023.

It’s not clear how much butyl acrylate people were exposed to or for how long. Environmental health experts note that because of a number of factors, including age and underlying health conditions, there’s a wide range of individual sensitivity to chemicals. In other words, different people will react to chemicals at different levels.

In the first few weeks after the spill, more than 90% of 702 people in the area who answered a government health survey reported having headaches, and more than 70% reported coughing or burning eyes. Stuffy noses, dizziness and breathlessness were also common, as were new or worsening mental health problems.

David and Shanna Chick and their two grade-school-age kids live about a quarter of a mile from where the train wrecked and caught fire. David, 32, has lived in East Palestine his whole life.

They had their home tested when Norfolk Southern and the EPA offered the screening on February 10, 2023. They were told that there was no problem, nothing was detected. CNN reviewed their air screening results.

Shanna, 33, works from home. She says the smells and symptoms aren’t as bad as they were in the beginning, but they still come and go.

“There’re days when I go outside, and I’m just walking to my garage, and I can just feel that I’m having a hard time breathing,” she said.

She wants to believe the EPA’s assurances that her family is out of harm’s way, she says, but her body is telling her something else.

“They’re missing something,” she said.

David is the operations manager for CeramSource, a company that closed one of its East Palestine manufacturing plants — Ceramfab — in 2023, laying off about 30 workers. The derailment and subsequent burn of thousands of pounds of vinyl chloride happened almost directly behind the Ceramfab building.

He said contractors hired by the railroad screened the building with one of the handheld devices, a photoionization detector or PID.

“They gave us the all-clear. They said ‘OK, go back to work. You’re fine,’” he said. Air screening results reviewed by CNN show that Ceramfab was tested on February 11, 2023, and nothing was detected.

Workers came back on a Monday, he said. By Wednesday, they were getting rashes and feeling breathless. One person had a nosebleed.

When they tried to bring the workers back again the next week, “it was the same thing all over again,” he said.

Eventually, Ceramfab’s customers stopped placing orders for fear their products would be contaminated, and Edwin Wang, David’s boss, decided to shut the factory down.

David has spent the past few months trying to get the factory packed up and closed. He says his eyes get irritated, his throat gets scratchy, and it’s harder to breathe after spending time in the building. The EPA is testing Ceramfab for vapor intrusion, or chemicals that might have migrated under the foundation of the building through contaminated soil.

No one will go to prison for this.

🚨Senator @JDVance1 questions Norfolk Southern’s motives for “controlled burn” of toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio:

“A lot of people are wondering: did they do this not because it was necessary, but because it allowed them to move traffic and freight more quickly?” pic.twitter.com/x0ASr450X0

— Senator Vance Press Office (@SenVancePress) March 9, 2024

Brandon made a point not to go visit the people of East Palestine, because they are Republican voters who are not big on trannies, endless wars, or tent cities full of immigrants.

Not sure why he would decide to go now, other than that he is pretending to put on an election campaign, and wants to show that he cares about the homophobe, racist scum who are all going to die of cancer.

New York Post:

President Biden committed Wednesday to visit East Palestine, Ohio, next month around the anniversary of a toxic train derailment — after months of awkward dodges from the White House when pressed on why he had not visited.

“In February, President Biden will travel to East Palestine, Ohio, to meet with residents impacted by the Norfolk Southern train derailment and assess the progress that his Administration has helped deliver in coordination with state and local leaders to protect the community and hold Norfolk Southern accountable,” an administration official said.

Former President Donald Trump, who is seeking a rematch against Biden in November, visited and ordered McDonald’s for residents the same month as the accident, while an imposing dark cloud of chemicals wafted over the Rust Belt town.

…

One East Palestine resident, local business owner DJ Yokley, slammed Biden’s plan for a belated visit.

“The American people have awakened to realize that the leader of our country did not show up to the greatest catastrophe of 2023. And now he’s going to show up because it is an election year,” Yokley said in a “Fox & Friends” interview Wednesday morning.

Yeah, I don’t think anyone awakened to anything.

There are 30% of the population that will always do whatever the TV says to do, and those are the Biden voters. Then, you have the immigrants. That’s his entire voter base.

No one is “waking up.”

Both sides of the American political spectrum are dug in.

Biden is going to fake the 2024 election like he faked the 2024 election, but he wants to pretend like he actually campaigned.

Joe Biden has decided to visit East Palestine, Ohio ONE YEAR after the toxic train derailment.

TOO LITTLE TOO LATE

“Now he’s going to show up because it’s an election year… the polls show President Trump came and supported us when he didn’t have to.”
pic.twitter.com/1IHuYVH33Y

— Graham Allen (@GrahamAllen_1) January 31, 2024

Why does this keep happening???

RT:

A train carrying potentially hazardous materials has derailed in the US State of Montana, with several cars ending up in the water, authorities said on Saturday. Montana Rail Link, the company operating the train, said there were no injuries.

In a statement on Facebook, Stillwater County’s Disaster and Emergency Services Department (DES) said the incident occurred at about 6am local time on a bridge over the Yellowstone River, which collapsed. In total, three cars containing hot asphalt and four cars carrying molten sulfur crashed into the water, it added.

The department said the cause of the incident remains unclear, and declined to speculate on whether the bridge collapse had led to the derailment, or vice versa.

Meanwhile, Montana Rail Link said the train also included two cars with sodium hydrosulfate, an extremely corrosive substance, but that neither of those made contact with the water.

Well. They would say that, wouldn’t they?

I don’t really believe the government narrative that toxic chemicals were always spilling out in random crises. We’ve had a lot of trains spilling, as well as buildings full of chemicals blowing up and catching on fire. It is a weekly thing, at least.

This seems to be a new pattern. But I don’t understand a “conspiracy to cause random chemical events.”

It is possible it was always happening, or rather, it had been increasing in frequency, and the national media only started noticing after the East Palestine, Ohio event. That probably makes more sense than a conspiracy.

Everything in America is getting shittier because of forced diversity.

Maybe we’ll find out that in the last few years, there was some push for diversity in the train industry.

I will say: this doesn’t happen in China.

Also, I will say: Captain Planet the cartoon was a Jewish conspiracy to brainwash millennial children into joining the environmentalist cult.

But in Captain Planet, they cared about poisonous chemicals. The Greta cult only cares about trying to change the weather by taxing white people and forcing them to eat bugs.

You can’t even go to East Palestine without getting sick. And if you’re getting sick like this, you’re definitely sewing the seeds of cancer a few years down the line.

It is an absolute outrage that the Biden people are still out there saying that the town is safe and refusing to give them the resources they need to relocate – while they continue to dump money into the Ukraine and into their inane global warming schemes.

Washington Examiner:

The CDC has now confirmed that seven of its employees reported symptoms, including sore throats, headaches, coughing, and nausea, while assessing the health of residents and pets living near the crash site, according to a report.

The seven employees, who were part of a team of 15 CDC investigators conducting house-to-house surveys, were asked to return to their hotel rooms on March 6 and work remotely the following day.

“Symptoms resolved for most team members later the same afternoon, and everyone resumed work on survey data collection within 24 hours,” a CDC statement noted. “Impacted team members have not reported ongoing health effects.”

Well, they’re going to be reporting them eventually.

You can’t have this kind of exposure to cancer-causing chemicals and not end up with cancer.

Everyone is going to get cancer.

People hundreds of miles away are going to get cancer.

Previously: Ohio Sues Norfolk Southern Over Toxic Train Disaster, Rail Workers Report Sicknesses

Joe Brandon’s position of standing with the toxic gassers has proved unpopular enough that he’s now being compelled to at least act like he’s against gassing rural Ohioans.

Apparently, the social simulations showed that this is something people feel very strongly about, making it not worth it to have this be one of the many places where the Bidens say “sorry, Jack, this is a democracy and you just have to take it because that’s our values.”

MarketWatch:

The Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency have filed a complaint against Norfolk Southern Corp. for unlawful discharge of pollutants and hazardous substances in the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

The complaint seeks penalties and injunctive relief for the unlawful discharge of pollutants, oil and hazardous substances under the Clean Water Act, according to statements released by the Justice Department and the EPA. The Justice Department and EPA are also seeking a declaratory judgment on liability for past and future costs under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA).

Norfolk Southern’s stock has fallen 16.8% since the derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. The stock is up 0.3% Friday.

“When a Norfolk Southern train derailed last month in East Palestine, Ohio, it released toxins into the air, soil, and water, endangering the health and safety of people in surrounding communities,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. “With this complaint, the Justice Department and the EPA are acting to pursue justice for the residents of East Palestine and ensure that Norfolk Southern carries the financial burden for the harm it has caused and continues to inflict on the community.”

This is a full 180 in response to public pressure.

Brandon’s original position was that he was standing with Norfolk and would seek to protect them from any liability.

In a separate statement, EPA Administrator Michael Regan said: “No community should have to go through what East Palestine residents have faced. With today’s action, we are once more delivering on our commitment to ensure Norfolk Southern cleans up the mess they made and pays for the damage they have inflicted as we work to ensure this community can feel safe at home again.”

Norfolk Southern has created a website, nsmakingitright.com, to track its progress in cleaning up the site.

“Our job right now is to make progress every day cleaning up the site, assisting residents whose lives were impacted by the derailment, and investing in the future of East Palestine and the surrounding areas,” a spokesperson for Norfolk Southern told MarketWatch. “We are working with urgency, at the direction of the U.S. EPA, and making daily progress. That remains our focus and we’ll keep working until we make it right.”

More than 9.4 million gallons of affected water have been recovered and transported off-site for final disposal, according to Norfolk Southern, along with 12,904 tons of waste soil that has been removed for proper disposal.

The company has also flushed 5,200 feet of affected waterways and sampled more than 275 private drinking water wells, according to nsmakingitright.com.

I’m not sure I believe that these people will be held to account by the bought and paid for Biden Administration.

But it’s interesting that public outcry has led the Bidens to at least pretend to be willing to hold a mega-corporation accountable.

Related: East Palestine Resident Says Officials are Lying, People Suffering from “Chemical Bronchitis”

For reasons no one has even tried to explain, major chemicals spills are happening almost daily in America.

On Sunday, a train crashed in North Dakota, spilling chemicals. On Monday, a chemical plant in Philadelphia dumped poison chemicals into the river.

People in Philadelphia are rushing to buy water after a chemical spill in the Delaware River. pic.twitter.com/AZtRbk8Dyn

— Lauren Witzke (@LaurenWitzkeDE) March 26, 2023

Following those two, there have been at least two other major chemical events so far this week.

Washington Examiner:

A train carrying ethanol derailed in Raymond, Minnesota, early Thursday morning, prompting evacuations for homes in the area after the spillage caused several rail cars to ignite.

The Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s Office sent emergency personnel to the site of the derailment of a train from BNSF Railways and discovered several derailed tankers on fire that were carrying ethanol and a corn syrup liquid. Fire and law enforcement eventually called for an evacuation for homes within half a mile of the crash site, with officers and EMS employees assisting with the evacuation, per a press release.

As of Thursday morning, the city of Raymond is not accessible to the public, so people hoping to distribute water and snacks to the firemen were instructed to go to the nearby town of Prinsburg at Unity Church, per the Raymond Fire Department.

“These brave souls have been working hard for hours already and have several hours of work ahead for them,” the department said.

This appears to be a major event, based on the photos.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, an anal freak and child kidnapper who has basically said that all these chemical events don’t matter and people are racist for even talking about them, tweeted about the crash.

FRA is on the ground after a BNSF train carrying ethanol derailed early this morning, leading to an evacuation in the area of Raymond, MN. At present no injuries or fatalities have been reported. We are tracking closely as more details emerge and will be involved in investigaton.

— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) March 30, 2023

Apparently, his response to the East Palestine crash – which was to refuse to talk about it and instead give another lecture on racist roads – was apparently viewed as wanting, so I guess now he’s going to talk about toxic chemical spills happening on his watch.

He didn’t comment on the poison barge crash, however.

Cleveland.com:

Ten barges, including one loaded with some 1,400 metric tons of methanol, broke free from a tug Tuesday and drifted on the Ohio River.

The barge loaded with the methanol was partially submerged, although officials from the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission – ORSANCO – told NPR there were no reports of methanol or other chemicals being released in the water.

Methanol is a toxic alcohol that is used industrially as a solvent, pesticide and alternative fuel source, according to the CDC.

The rest of the barges were carrying soy bean oil and corn, WLKY-TV reported.

Three barges settled next to part of the McAlpine Dam near the Ohio Falls hydroelectric station, operated by LG&E and KU Energy. One appeared to be crumpled up against a pillar at a spill gate, NPR reported.

This is also a pretty serious looking event:

What the hell is going on?

The entire infrastructure of the United States is just collapsing all at once? I would expect the infrastructure to be collapsing, due to diversity and the loose regulations on multinational corporations in this country, but why would it collapse all at once like this?

It’s almost like there has to be some conspiracy here. I don’t know what it is. But it seems like there has to be one. Large series of coincidences don’t just happen randomly, all in a row like this.

It’s difficult to imagine that someone is sabotaging all of these trains, boats, and plants.

But what are the other options?

Again, no one seems to have any idea.

The government says that this has always happened and we are just now noticing it. That doesn’t seem like it’s true, and the data does not back it up. The daily chemical spill is a new phenomenon that has started in the last few months.

The East Palestine situation has become like something out of a parody of 1990s leftist notions of an unfettered capitalist dystopia.

But the leftists are not paying any attention. They are too busy helping multinational corporations and government change the weather by raising taxes. Also, they think it’s a good thing if rural whites suffer and die.

It’s interesting that The Guardian, a traditional leftist paper that is much less Jewish than its American counterparts, is the only paper in the world covering this.

This week, they published an op-ed by a resident of East Palestine.

Greg Mascher writes for The Guardian:

On the evening of 3 February I was at home in East Palestine, Ohio, watching a movie with my granddaughters, when my daughter Adyson called and asked, “Dad, what’s going on downtown?” I looked out the window and there was an orange glow in the sky. I turned the movie down to talk to my daughter but she’d hung up. Ten minutes later she called back and said, “We’re coming to get you.”

We went to try to figure out what had happened and it was like driving into a cloud – smoke was billowing overhead. A Norfolk Southern freight train had derailed. You could see the flames over the tops of nearby houses and feel the heat from several hundred feet away. Huge clouds of smoke were spreading from the crash site over our town.

…

People in the immediate area of the derailment were ordered to evacuate, in case of an explosion. The rest of us were told to shelter in place. By Saturday, the next morning, the air was full of smog. I was supposed to take my girls to a school basketball game; I told them to pull their hoodies up over their mouths.

On Sunday, the EPA officials said that they did not detect any contaminants in the air. But my granddaughters had developed blotches all over their bodies. They looked like burns, as if they’d spent too much time next to a sun lamp. My seven-year-old granddaughter’s leg was beet-red. They were coughing and their eyes were burning. I began to experience constant headaches and a nagging cough.

My wife’s cousin is a cancer researcher at Stanford. She called us and said, “Get the girls the hell out of there.” The railroad company had given us a voucher for two nights at a hotel, so we drove to an inn about 15 miles away.

On 6 February, officials decided to “burn off” the vinyl chloride rather than risk it exploding. The EPA said that there was a small uptick in toxins near the burn site and that it was to be expected. Dead fish started turning up in streams.

After a couple of days out of town my granddaughters’ rashes started to fade but we all continued coughing. I’ve been an athlete all my life. I don’t smoke or drink and was a pretty decent basketball player for many years. I’ve never had a persistent cough like this before.

On 8 February, authorities lifted the evacuation order. The EPA said its testing showed that the air and water were safe. We didn’t trust that assessment. Part of my family went to a relative’s house in West Virginia. Each time I’ve gone to East Palestine to check on my house my headaches start again.

It’s now been six weeks since the wreck. I dread night-time because when I lie down to sleep the constant coughing starts. My wife of 35 years woke me up recently because my breathing was so bad; she said I sounded like I had fluid in my lungs. Other people are having similar experiences. The ER doctors say it is chemical bronchitis.

…

I don’t believe the government or railway company’s claims that our town is safe. You hate to say that they’re lying, but they are. Some families don’t plan to come back at all. That breaks my heart. We have such a tight-knit community here.

The Guardian is usually a joke. But no American papers are publishing the basic facts of the situation, let alone giving the residents of East Palestine a chance to tell the world about their own experiences.

I guess if we’re being charitable, this does imply that leftists are not all bad, and they’ve simply been manipulated by corporations to believe in debunked hoaxes like global warming and vaccine safety.

Of course, it doesn’t really matter how genuine they are or aren’t, because they are still going to keep pushing the globalist, corporate, Jewish agenda in all but the rare instances where the counter-narrative doesn’t lock-in properly.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Whistleblower reveals Department of Transportation under Pete Buttigieg IGNORED East Palestine because of politically motivated cruelty.

Claims DOT allocates resources based on regional politics: Blue state get funded, Red states get ignored.

Also exposed… pic.twitter.com/LF7f1yLa6i

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 26, 2023

🚨BREAKING: DOT Whistleblower reveals that the Department of Transportation under Pete Buttigieg allocates resources based on the politics of the state, Blue state vs Red state and says the mishandling of the East Palestine disaster was politically motivated. pic.twitter.com/fVguDPQ5Jk

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 26, 2023

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