They're just shipping it to Texas and Michigan because shut up.
Posted on 02/26/2023 8:57:06 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Officials in Texas and Michigan said they were not informed before their states received shipments of contaminated water and soil from East Palestine, Ohio, where a train derailed with toxic chemicals and caused a public health and environmental crisis earlier this month.
Norfolk Southern, the rail company leading cleanup efforts after its train carrying vinyl chloride derailed Feb. 3, had contracted with licensed waste disposal facilities in Texas and Michigan to dispose of hazardous waste from the Ohio derailment, Gov. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) said Saturday.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), whose district includes part of Harris County where some of the waste is being disposed of, tweeted Saturday: "This process of dumping toxic waste in communities without prior notice to local cities and counties has to stop."
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered the transport of waste to be halted pending additional oversight measures, the Ohio governor also said Saturday.
Twenty truckloads of hazardous solid waste weighing approximately 280 tons have been hauled away from the derailment site, and 15 of the truckloads were disposed of in Michigan while five were returned to East Palestine, officials said.
The liquid waste that has already left the Ohio village will be disposed of in Texas, but no additional liquid waste will be sent there at this time.
"Currently, about 102,000 gallons of liquid waste and 4,500 cubic yards of solid waste remain in storage on site in East Palestine, not including the five truckloads returned to the village. Additional solid and liquid wastes are being generated as the cleanup progresses," DeWine said.
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) also said her office was not alerted about the East Palestine waste being disposed of in her state.
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They're just shipping it to Texas and Michigan because shut up.
Years ago Not Necessarily the News suggested every Illegal Alien be made to take a drum of toxic waste with them when they are sent back.
What the hell is this all about? First they dump migrant crap all over Texas and now they’re dumping toxic soil and water on us! Whiskey! Tango! Foxtrot! Time for Ken Paxton to slap a lawsuit on those bassturds! Texas is our home, not your landfill or septic tank! Sue ‘em Ken!!!
The government is in charge and is there to help!
Well. Haha. It was Wayne County.
Quick, find the nearest Republican to blame!
Whose idea is it to transfer all this stuff all over the place.
This whole this is a story of incompetence on so many levels. This is NS problem. They should be giving daily briefings from EP on what they are doing.
The Pols should be demanding nothing less.
It is a pathetic mess by everyone involved. Even for Trump, he should have a plan, lay it out, then begin to press NS and Pete BootyGig to get moving.
Beware of democrats bearing gifts.
Maybe this will wake people up to the fact that Michigan and Texas companies regularly contract with the EPA to dispose of hazardous waste in Michigan and Texas. The EPA and these companies want to keep these processes under the radar and transfers happen every day. The names of the companies and what they do with the waste could use a little journalistic sunshine.
There are but a few toxic waste dump site in this country.
When crap like this happens, the waste gets hauled to the site the FEDERAL GOVERMENT determines...EPA.
This accident is but a tiny pimple compared to the bull shit the EPA pulled in Silverton Co under Obastard.
That one send contamination ALL THE WAY..down the Colorado River system to the Gulf. Right now, Las Vegas is likely drinking that water. They just do not know it..its a secrete you know.
Tell this to Mitch McConnell; oh, I forgot, he cares only about Ukraine.
Why wasn’t any of this sent to Little Peter Buttiplug’s backyard?
Just curious, but how exactly does one perform an outdoor, open air “controlled burn”? More specifically, how exactly do they keep the contaminated particles from floating away into the atmosphere?
Boy, that queer boy Pete Buttman is a regular genius, ain’t he?
I believe the toxic materials should be forced down the throats of the railroad leadership and key owners.
The EPA promises the impossible and f’s up the feasible. Bureaucracies serve only their own survival.
I hadn’t seen that video prior. Nor have I seen an account of how they blew up the tank cars, but read brief reports asserting as much. But those white plumes were vapor, precursors to BLEVE. Anyone know if they shot the tank cars?
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“Every breath you take
I’ll be watching you.”
(gasp, cough, gasp)
Every Breath You Take by The Police
Just sprinkle it around. It’ll be gone in no time.
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