Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment
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Re: Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment
#2Prediction: nobody gets any resolution except the lawyers.
Re: Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment
#3NBC suit and mask is starting to go from "crazy prepper territory" to sane supply keeping.
Re: Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment
#4Prediction: nobody gets any resolution except the lawyers.
Vultures gotta vulture, be they lawyers or the politicians who will swoop in to sympathize with the people once enough concern is registered and magically becomes a touchstone issue.
Re: Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment
#5What is being underplayed:
-Same chemical by products as the chemicals stored at the Bhopal disaster -Railroad unions have been warning of this outcome for more than 10 years
They will end up suing NS as the town will have to be evacuated again and demolished as they will find that the water-table has been polluted beyond repair.
Re: Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment
#6What is being underplayed: -Same chemical by products as the chemicals stored at the Bhopal disaster -Railroad unions have been warning of this outcome for more than 10 years They will end up suing NS as the town will have to be evacuated again and demolished as they will find that the water-table has been polluted beyond repair.
Bhopal was methyl isocyanate.
Re: Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment
#7- "On Sunday, the EPA released a list, written by Norfolk Southern, of the toxic chemicals that were in the derailed cars. In addition to vinyl chloride and butyl acrylate, it mentions ethylhexyl acrylate, which can cause headaches, nausea, and respiratory problems in people exposed to it; as well as isobutylene, which can make people dizzy and drowsy."
This is anodyne phrasing that omits the lede, which is that this information was not previously disclosed. This expanded "list of toxic chemicals" was not public prior to Sunday.
Here's ABC's reporting by way of comparison: "There were more toxic chemicals on train that derailed in Ohio than originally reported, data shows"
https://abcnews.go.com/US/toxic-chemicals-train-derailed-ohi...
(Another notable diff is that ABC describes ethylhexyl acrylate as a "carcinogen", linking to a CDC page as a cite. NPR's exposition reads differently: "ethylhexyl acrylate, which can cause headaches, nausea, and respiratory problems in people exposed to it;").
Re: Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment
#8This is basically the plot of “white noise” with Adam driver (on netflix).
Re: Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment
#9This is basically the plot of “white noise” with Adam driver (on netflix).
Which oddly enough was filmed in the town this happened in… the universe is weird.
Re: Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment
#10What is being underplayed: -Same chemical by products as the chemicals stored at the Bhopal disaster -Railroad unions have been warning of this outcome for more than 10 years They will end up suing NS as the town will have to be evacuated again and demolished as they will find that the water-table has been polluted beyond repair.
...Not to mention the dispersion along the entire Ohio River watershed, which supplies drinking water for about 5M people.