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Helius said:

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Jeez a whole two days' drive to the airport?! After barely a week at the job pulling out a grand total of 3 people and one of them didn't even survive to boot? Can't even imagine the "extremely difficult" ordeal! The Taiwanese SAR team have my sympathies.

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siegecrossbow said:

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EPA says contaminated soil was covered to rebuild rail line​

Ohio (WKBN) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sent a letter to Norfolk Southern claiming it failed to properly dispose of contaminated soil after the train derailment in East Palestine.

According to the letter, “Five railcar tankers of vinyl chloride were intentionally breached; the vinyl chloride was diverted to an excavated trench and then burned off. Areas of contaminated soil and free liquids were observed and potentially covered and/or filled during reconstruction of the rail line including portions of the trench /burn pit that was used for the open burn off of vinyl chloride.”

“I think it was not in the best interest of human health and welfare and the environment to simply cover it up and keep going without at least a preliminary evaluation to determine if the level of vinyl chloride that was present in the soil was going to create a potential contamination threat to surface or groundwater,” said Dr. Julie Weatherington-Rice who has a Ph.D. in soil science and has been working for Bennett & Williams Environmental Consultants since 1986.

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FriedButter said:

Corporate Greed to the max. That company decided to bury the contaminated soil instead of removing it. Every lost day is less profit after all. Better to just leave East Palestine because Norfolk will probably resell the dirt as local fertilizer.

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chloride.”

“I think it was not in the best interest of human health and welfare and the environment to simply cover it up and keep going without at least a preliminary evaluation to determine if the level of vinyl chloride that was present in the soil was going to create a potential contamination threat to surface or groundwater,” said Dr. Julie Weatherington-Rice who has a Ph.D. in soil science and has been working for Bennett & Williams Environmental Consultants since 1986.

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jwnz said:

I wonder if they would be this motivated and hard working when fighting in AR...

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jwnz said:

BBC News - US suspects three unidentified objects it shot down were 'benign'

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LOL

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Bloomberg: We want to know whether Chinese diplomats and state media outlets are trying to distract public attention from the balloon incident by raising questions around US involvement in the Nord Stream pipeline blast as well as the chemical spill from the train derailment? 

Wang Wenbin: The Nord Stream gas pipelines are vital transnational infrastructure. The explosions have had a serious impact on the global energy market and ecological environment. If Seymour Hersh, a well-known US investigative journalist, is telling the truth about US involvement in the explosions, what he revealed is clearly unacceptable and must be answered for. The US owes the world a responsible explanation.

We wonder why there is little coverage by some media hailed as free, professional and impartial on the latest investigative report on the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines and the chemical leak caused by the train derailment in the US? Based on what we have seen, this is nothing new.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — Gov. Mike Dewine held a news conference Tuesday to update Ohioans on

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at the site of a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

The governor revealed he’d recently been told by the Ohio Public Utilities Commission (PUCO) that Ohio wasn’t alerted to the train’s presence before

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“This train apparently was not considered a

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material train. Therefore, the railroad was not required to notify anyone here in Ohio about what was in the railcars coming through our state," DeWine said, calling that fact "absurd."

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