🔥 National Review ran an alarming article yesterday headlined, “EPA Orders Pause of Toxic-Waste Removal from Site of Ohio Train Derailment.” The pause started Saturday, it was un-paused yesterday afternoon, and the reason for the pause was pretty ironic.
It turns out the EPA had been surreptitiously shipping toxic dirt and water out of East Palestine to private hazardous waste disposal companies in Michigan and Texas — a half million gallons of contaminated water to Houston and 20 truckloads of toxic dirt to Belleville, Michigan — without letting either state’s government know about the operation. Once they’d figured out what was going on, they put a quick halt to the EPA’s toxic-waste-shifting scheme. Michigan even sent five truck loads back.
“Five truckloads of contaminated soil were returned to East Palestine,” Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s office said Saturday. “The licensed hazardous waste treatment and disposal facility in Texas will dispose of liquid waste that has already been trucked out of East Palestine, but no additional liquid waste will be accepted at the Texas facility at this time.”
The EPA’s inability to ship the toxic material anywhere has led to a “pause” in the cleanup effort, frustrating East Palestine residents, who don’t want the toxic chemicals there either, and leading to headlines like this:
The problem is, NOBODY wanted the stuff. So EPA had to make what must have been a LOT of phone calls. Late yesterday, the Blaze reported the EPA has resumed cleanup operations. “Some of the liquid wastes will be sent to a facility in Vickery, Ohio, where it will be disposed of in an underground injection well,” EPA regional administrator Debra Shore said at a news conference. “Norfolk Southern will also begin shipping solid waste to the Heritage Incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio,” she explained.
East Liverpool is right on the Ohio River. Just saying.
What’s most encouraging about this story is that independent media — mostly on Twitter — is the only reason the government is getting this much scrutiny over the toxic derailment.
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Surprise! Nobody wants the toxic waste.
It turns out the EPA had been surreptitiously shipping toxic dirt and water out of East Palestine to private hazardous waste disposal companies in Michigan and Texas — a half million gallons of contaminated water to Houston and 20 truckloads of toxic dirt to Belleville, Michigan — without letting either state’s government know about the operation. Once they’d figured out what was going on, they put a quick halt to the EPA’s toxic-waste-shifting scheme. Michigan even sent five truck loads back.
“Five truckloads of contaminated soil were returned to East Palestine,” Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s office said Saturday. “The licensed hazardous waste treatment and disposal facility in Texas will dispose of liquid waste that has already been trucked out of East Palestine, but no additional liquid waste will be accepted at the Texas facility at this time.”
The EPA’s inability to ship the toxic material anywhere has led to a “pause” in the cleanup effort, frustrating East Palestine residents, who don’t want the toxic chemicals there either, and leading to headlines like this:
The problem is, NOBODY wanted the stuff. So EPA had to make what must have been a LOT of phone calls. Late yesterday, the Blaze reported the EPA has resumed cleanup operations. “Some of the liquid wastes will be sent to a facility in Vickery, Ohio, where it will be disposed of in an underground injection well,” EPA regional administrator Debra Shore said at a news conference. “Norfolk Southern will also begin shipping solid waste to the Heritage Incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio,” she explained.
East Liverpool is right on the Ohio River. Just saying.
What’s most encouraging about this story is that independent media — mostly on Twitter — is the only reason the government is getting this much scrutiny over the toxic derailment.
National Review article: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/epa-orders-pause-of-toxic-waste-removal-from-site-of-ohio-train-derailment/