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Feb 16 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
🎥Watch—TRAIN SAFETY RULES—"When Obama tried to make [new, more effective brakes] mandatory after a bunch of derailments in 2014—the lobbyists fought it hard. They gutted it. In 2018, Trump’s DOT, Elaine Chao was DOT secretary, rolled it back entirely."
2) The ECP (electronic controlled pneumatic) brakes are the modern brakes we needed, but @nscorp didn’t install on the recent #OhioTrainDisaster derailed trains.
3) The ECP brakes were recommended in 2014 with the rule requiring them on flammable trains set to start in 2023… but was blocked by @ElaineChao @SecElaineChao in 2018.
4) Norfolk Southern had a history of derailments and EPA fines and getting people hurt and killed. @nscorp
5) Norfolk Southern @nscorp continues to remain negligent and derelict in their cleanup responsibilities… case in point…
6) Let this sink in— The UK 🇬🇧 has had electronic pneumatic brakes for 70-100 years!!! But but but ‘Murica freedom…

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Feb 17
⚠️ONE TIME WATER💦 TESTING NOT ENOUGH—@EPAMichaelRegan says he’d allow his kids to drink or bathe in the water in #EastPalestine OH if home tested. ➡️However, soil contamination means EVERY TIME IN RAINS—new/more chemicals can be flushed into the water!
2) Soil contamination ==> new water contamination every time in rains is well known! It’s not speculation. Norfolk Southern admits they don’t know how much soil leakage. And they DID NOT CLEAN UP SOIL!!! See 👇
3) Water… possibly not safe even 15 miles away. Listen:
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Feb 16
My god—“newly public document says potentially contaminated soil was not removed—a critical step [to be] completed quickly so that toxic materials are not further dispersed into the environment & groundwater”—EVERY TIME IT RAINS! #OhioTrainDisaster @nscorp
cnn.com/2023/02/15/us/… Image
2) Cleanup and monitoring of the site could take years, Kurt Kollar of the Ohio EPA’s said February 8, vowing that after the emergency response, “Ohio EPA is going to remain involved through our other divisions that oversee the long-term cleanup of these kinds of spill.”
3) The federal EPA, too, will “continue to do everything in our power to help protect the community,” Administrator Michael Regan said Tuesday.
Norfolk Southern is responsible for cleaning up the site, according to a February 10 notice sent to the company by the federal EPA.
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Feb 14
“Controlled” release burn 🔥 is a weird kind of corporate doublespeak. This will hurt millions of people in OH/PA for years to come. But hey—at least @nscorp did a $10 bil stock buyback to pump their shares instead of upgrading 🚊brakes. #OhioChernobyl
It wasn’t just Vinyl Chloride. There were several other toxic chemicals. See thread 🧵— we didn’t need to sacrifice the town to reopen the railroad so quickly damnit.
3) Someone should legally burn 🔥 for this— @nscorp executives and lobbyists.
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Feb 13
NEW TOXINS IDENTIFIED—“We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open,” said Sil Caggiano, a hazardous materials specialist. Rail company Norfolk Southern is paying just $25k to the town, or ~$5 per resident.🧵

HT @therecount
2) DRINKING WATER now endangered. East Palestine police in Ohio is warning that drinking water may be "at-risk" for some people.

A task group is going door-to-door to test water.

HT @therecount
3) Yesterday I advocated potentially warning and advising everyone within 50 mile radius to be on high alert after the vinyl chloride rail spill. Here is 50 miles… it includes all the way to Pittsburgh!
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Feb 12
Gosh—Thousands of gallons of carcinogenic vinyl chloride has spilled and burned in Ohio from a 50-train car derailment. Nobody in the media is talking much about it. I wouldn’t move back to the town or that area for a while if I were living near there. fastcompany.com/90848025/ohio-…
2) the local govt often downplays these risks and tells people it’s safe to go back. It’s not. @dennismhogan shares the story of his father being told its safe to do ground zero cleanup of another spill.:: except he died relatively soon at age 55 of cancer after he worked there.
3) And now the @EPA says it’s safe to return?
@EPAMichaelRegan needs to reassess and think again. It’s not safe in East Palestine Ohio yet. Read this:
fastcompany.com/90848025/ohio-…
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Feb 11
OMG—When the MRI machine was turned on, the magnetic 🧲 force pulled his gun from his waistband & it discharged—the bullet struck him in the abdomen—killing him. He was an advocate of gun ownership and encouraged people on TikTok/Instagram to collect guns.
kiro7.com/news/trending/…
2) de Novaes had accompanied his mother to get an MRI scan at a facility in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Jan. 16, and took a handgun into the room, carrying it in his waistband.
According to officials, both the attorney and his mother were told to remove any metal object they had before… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
3) to stop an bad MRI with a gun, we clearly need a good MRI with a gun. Right, right?
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