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Botany

(70,567 posts)
Thu Feb 23, 2023, 06:12 PM Feb 2023

The train wreck in OH 3 things:

1) Managing the spill and the clean up would be under the auspices of the Ohio EPA. These people
yapping about how come Joe Biden didn't do anything are idiots although President Biden did call
the Governor of OH, Mike Dewine and ask if he needed anything. Pennsylvania's EPA might have been
involved if any of the toxins crossed the border.

2) The fire has me concerned that the people from the rail road and or whomever had the contract to do the
clean up might have let the fire burn because that was a quick and dirty way of getting rid of the problem although
the fire didn't change the toxic nature of the chemicals that the tank cars were hauling but it did spread them
around a much wider area.

3) Donald Trump is thankfully no longer President and as such has zero say in the clean up however he did get rid of
the Obama era's ruling about updating the braking systems on such tank cars which very well might have stopped
the train from derailing in the 1st place.

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The train wreck in OH 3 things: (Original Post) Botany Feb 2023 OP
Dewine told samplegirl Feb 2023 #1
Unfortunately cleaning up effects all of our lives. Hope22 Feb 2023 #5
Did you miss the NTSB bulletin? WarGamer Feb 2023 #2
NTSB: '100% preventable' moondust Feb 2023 #3
The federal EPA has already taken charge, since the Ohio EPA hasn't done squat FakeNoose Feb 2023 #4

samplegirl

(11,489 posts)
1. Dewine told
Thu Feb 23, 2023, 06:25 PM
Feb 2023

Biden not to come. He sure cleared the way for trump to come and even excuse kids from school.
The Mayor their said they didn’t like Biden!

So let trump and. Acne take care of those idiots there!

Hope22

(1,857 posts)
5. Unfortunately cleaning up effects all of our lives.
Thu Feb 23, 2023, 07:18 PM
Feb 2023

Whichever way the wind blows, how the water flows, all of it will kill many many people over time! The state has allowed the poisonous fracking waters to be injected into wells already. This is just the icing on the cake.

WarGamer

(12,463 posts)
2. Did you miss the NTSB bulletin?
Thu Feb 23, 2023, 06:27 PM
Feb 2023

Brakes had nothing to do with it.

This train didn't meet the criteria of "highly hazardous flammable train" that the 2018 brake rules applied to

FakeNoose

(32,722 posts)
4. The federal EPA has already taken charge, since the Ohio EPA hasn't done squat
Thu Feb 23, 2023, 07:16 PM
Feb 2023

Norfolk Southern will foot the bill for everything. If they don't pony up, EPA will clean up the mess themselves, and bill NS with bonus penalties. It would be to Norfolk Southern's best interest to cooperate with EPA to the fullest extent possible.





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