The Biden administration doesn’t care about the dire suffering of the residents of East Palestine, Ohio, they revel in it.
Just remember, he denied the town full assistance for weeks.
The EPA has ordered Norfolk Southern to clean up a toxic train derailment that occurred on February 3, the Daily Mail reported Saturday night. The EPA says the shutdown is “temporary.”
The EPA previously ordered Norfolk Southern to pay the full costs associated with the cleanup.
The heartless move comes as TGP’s Christina Laila revealed last Saturday that residents of East Palestine are experiencing horrific new symptoms as a result of the train derailment. One person reported that his voice sounded like Mickey Mouse.
Residents have previously mentioned that they have rashes and headaches due to toxic chemicals.
Thousands of animals have also perished.
The Daily Mail reported
Federal environmental officials earlier this month ordered a temporary halt to the shipment of contaminated waste from the site of a fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio near the Pennsylvania state line.
The agency ordered Norfolk Southern to ‘pause’ shipments from the derailment site in eastern Palestine on February 3, Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 administrator Debra Shore said Saturday but vowed that removal of material would resume ‘very soon’.
Everyone wants this pollution to go away from the community. They don’t want the worry, and they don’t want the smell, and we owe it to the people of East Palestine to get it out of the community as quickly as possible,’ Shore said.
As of Friday, Shore said, the rail company was fully responsible for the disposal of the waste and had provided Ohio environmental officials with a list of designated and used disposal sites.
Going forward, disposal plans, including locations and transportation routes for contaminated waste, will be subject to EPA review and approval, he said.
The Ohio governor’s office said Saturday night that twenty truckloads (approximately 280 tons) of hazardous solid waste were shipped, 15 truckloads of contaminated soil were disposed of at a Michigan hazardous waste treatment and disposal facility, and five truckloads were returned to East Palestine. .
Liquid waste already trucked from East Palestine will be disposed of at a licensed hazardous waste treatment and disposal facility in Texas, but that facility will not accept more liquid waste, the Ohio governor’s office said.
Currently, approximately 102,000 gallons of liquid waste and 4,500 cubic yards of solid waste remain in storage in East Palestine. Five trucks were not returned to the village,” the governor’s office said. ‘Additional solid and liquid wastes are being generated as sanitation progresses.’
No one should believe the administration’s words of “promise”. Their actions are a major reason why residents face chronic health problems.
