On February 3, a freight train operated by Norfolk Southern derailed in Ohio near the small town of East Palestine. The train was carrying several toxic chemicals, including vinyl chloride, a highly toxic and flammable gas used to make plastic. The derailment resulted in a massive fire, unleashing a thick plume of smoke over the town. Residents who lived near the crash site were ordered to evacuate. A few days later, fearing another explosion, authorities drained the tankers of the chemicals and burned them off in a trench.
After everyone’s safely is assured, how much would we have to collectively donate to put this in their local newspaper as a letter to the editor or something? Or to plaster it over area billboards?
Wait! Carson, Hannity, et al want to depend on the government to do more? Specifically the EPA? But wait. I thought that government was useless. That it was good for nothing. That the private sector had all of the answers. They told me that the worst words in the English language are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." Has that changed?
under fund, over regulate and then blame an agency for failing. Public schools have been under this pressure for years. It is the #1 reason for privatization for the conservative and libertarians. Government is just not efficient enough, in other words, all that public money needs to go into some entrepreneurs pockets to "create" jobs while the main reason will be to enrich investors. Good ole trust fund baby Tucker.
Yet the people in that town & the right wing mouthpieces are blaming it all on Buttigieg! Literally, it’s a Repub town with Repub leadership & rules of a Repub potus still in play & yet they’ve been attacking Pete.
Tucker & Hannity & the rest of Fox degenerates howl like kicked dogs when regulation is mentioned. Pretty sure Hannity once cheered the idea to dissolve the EPA (“big govt”) in the past.
Once again , its the corporations who according to the Supreme Courts, are ‘people’.
The real ‘ people’ are now what?????
Who cares? We with the help of Courts and Republican donations ,proven over and over again that
Corporations are more important than your families , children , parents , aunts and uncles ,Grandparents , and please don’t forget this. It will be at your peril , people.
This is life in a ‘ freedom loving’ country.
Of course the worst impact wont be felt for a few more years.
Cancers, leukemias , and other terminal stalkers will be more prevalent.
Dead animals and fish are everywhere.
Ocean shores are hosts to multitudes of dead fish .
Our bird population is declining .
Our environment is corruptly threatened.
Unfortunately none of these enemies possess a checkbook so they can get on the short list of what matters.
Big Corporations that exist only to increase their profits are terrorists.
There's plenty of blame to go around here, but it's perhaps a bit ironic that "Amtrak Joe" and his administration have not done more to address railway safety. Maybe this disaster will force them to reevaluate their inaction heretofore, but probably not.
I am of a mind that shooting crap out of the sky last weekend was to take the heat off this environmental nightmare being exposed. Someone I know in the general area says vinyl chloride has been found in home gutters, so you can guess where the next rain takes that. This will have environmental impact for years.
This was pretty damn close to Pittsburgh PA. So know these things do run through major cities and population centers where hundreds, if not thousands, could be killed or made ill.
As for NS and BN and all the big railroads. Hmmm. Congress just clobbered the knees of Railroad workers in the name of taking one for the team to avoid a strike.
Do you think anyone in the Capitol or the White House will make the connection between too few workers, no paid time off and the monumental problems that can arise of a system running on corporate greed?
Me, neither.
Keep on them Judd. No CEO anywhere is worth 14 million a year, btw.
The Right's position is that EPA should be eliminated because just look at Palestine. I.e., government is incompetent at best and criminal at worst. So, Carlson's rant likely wasn't so much about how EPA should do more; it was about how the EPA is so awful it shouldn't even exist.
These guys make a fortune off their attempts to destroy our country from within.
"Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) — the Senate’s third largest recipient of rail industry campaign cash — pushed to repeal the electronic braking rule outright, before settling for a measure requiring additional research and a new cost-benefit analysis of the technology."
It's inexplicable that Biden did not fire every orangehead holdover, and yes that incudes DeJoy, and rescind every orangehead policy. I just don't get it.
Pftucker Carlsen will gripe at anything that taints greedy corporate sponsors . . . If only there was a hell; grasping claws would rise amid the pool of industrial poison and snatch that prig-- and, as he likes to complain--it wouldn’t happen fast enough.
The Republican talking point on all things having to do with public safety requirements for corporations is that regulations are “unduly burdensome” or “job killing”. Carlson often uses these talking points. Carlson is the leader of the “angertainment” (not my creation) industry.
Again, a well researched article cutting to the heart of the problem in the USA - corporate greed and lobbyists.
After everyone’s safely is assured, how much would we have to collectively donate to put this in their local newspaper as a letter to the editor or something? Or to plaster it over area billboards?
Wait! Carson, Hannity, et al want to depend on the government to do more? Specifically the EPA? But wait. I thought that government was useless. That it was good for nothing. That the private sector had all of the answers. They told me that the worst words in the English language are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." Has that changed?
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under fund, over regulate and then blame an agency for failing. Public schools have been under this pressure for years. It is the #1 reason for privatization for the conservative and libertarians. Government is just not efficient enough, in other words, all that public money needs to go into some entrepreneurs pockets to "create" jobs while the main reason will be to enrich investors. Good ole trust fund baby Tucker.
Again Corporate greed trumps public safety.
Just another example of our elected officials representing corporations and billionaires rather than us!
Horrifying! But not surprising. Thanks for your hard work at putting together the facts.
Yet the people in that town & the right wing mouthpieces are blaming it all on Buttigieg! Literally, it’s a Repub town with Repub leadership & rules of a Repub potus still in play & yet they’ve been attacking Pete.
Tucker & Hannity & the rest of Fox degenerates howl like kicked dogs when regulation is mentioned. Pretty sure Hannity once cheered the idea to dissolve the EPA (“big govt”) in the past.
These people are ridiculous & proud to be so.
Once again , its the corporations who according to the Supreme Courts, are ‘people’.
The real ‘ people’ are now what?????
Who cares? We with the help of Courts and Republican donations ,proven over and over again that
Corporations are more important than your families , children , parents , aunts and uncles ,Grandparents , and please don’t forget this. It will be at your peril , people.
This is life in a ‘ freedom loving’ country.
Of course the worst impact wont be felt for a few more years.
Cancers, leukemias , and other terminal stalkers will be more prevalent.
Dead animals and fish are everywhere.
Ocean shores are hosts to multitudes of dead fish .
Our bird population is declining .
Our environment is corruptly threatened.
Unfortunately none of these enemies possess a checkbook so they can get on the short list of what matters.
Big Corporations that exist only to increase their profits are terrorists.
Period.
There's plenty of blame to go around here, but it's perhaps a bit ironic that "Amtrak Joe" and his administration have not done more to address railway safety. Maybe this disaster will force them to reevaluate their inaction heretofore, but probably not.
I am of a mind that shooting crap out of the sky last weekend was to take the heat off this environmental nightmare being exposed. Someone I know in the general area says vinyl chloride has been found in home gutters, so you can guess where the next rain takes that. This will have environmental impact for years.
This was pretty damn close to Pittsburgh PA. So know these things do run through major cities and population centers where hundreds, if not thousands, could be killed or made ill.
As for NS and BN and all the big railroads. Hmmm. Congress just clobbered the knees of Railroad workers in the name of taking one for the team to avoid a strike.
Do you think anyone in the Capitol or the White House will make the connection between too few workers, no paid time off and the monumental problems that can arise of a system running on corporate greed?
Me, neither.
Keep on them Judd. No CEO anywhere is worth 14 million a year, btw.
The Right's position is that EPA should be eliminated because just look at Palestine. I.e., government is incompetent at best and criminal at worst. So, Carlson's rant likely wasn't so much about how EPA should do more; it was about how the EPA is so awful it shouldn't even exist.
These guys make a fortune off their attempts to destroy our country from within.
Check this Power Map to trace the money that the rail lobby gave Republicans to get train safety regulations weakened. https://thedemlabs.org/2023/02/13/rail-companies-blocked-safety-rules-before-ohio-derailment-public-health-hazard/
"Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) — the Senate’s third largest recipient of rail industry campaign cash — pushed to repeal the electronic braking rule outright, before settling for a measure requiring additional research and a new cost-benefit analysis of the technology."
It's inexplicable that Biden did not fire every orangehead holdover, and yes that incudes DeJoy, and rescind every orangehead policy. I just don't get it.
Pftucker Carlsen will gripe at anything that taints greedy corporate sponsors . . . If only there was a hell; grasping claws would rise amid the pool of industrial poison and snatch that prig-- and, as he likes to complain--it wouldn’t happen fast enough.
The Republican talking point on all things having to do with public safety requirements for corporations is that regulations are “unduly burdensome” or “job killing”. Carlson often uses these talking points. Carlson is the leader of the “angertainment” (not my creation) industry.