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Feb 23 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Fox News finally admits the truth to its viewers— the Trump administration succumbed to @nscorp / railroad lobbyists to undo the Obama-era rules that would have required improved train brakes for hazardous materials.

HT @AdamParkhomenko … twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
2) Norfolk Southern-paid so-called “health clinics” are not really true clinics to test or diagnose anything. Don’t fall for that nonsense. #OhioChemicalDisaster
3) Also beware “current tests show nothing” claims. Because ➡️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 👇
4) Residents who visited that so called “health clinic” says it was a waste of 2 hours. They told this man who has chest pains and headaches that there’s “nothing they can do”.

HT @DrydenNovelette #OhioChemicalDisaster #EastPalenstineOH

5) If only the @nscorp had better brakes… this tragedy likely would have been avoided.
6) What a rare moment in history when CNN and Fox News actually agree on the truth about Trump WH slashing the Obama-era train brake regulation… what a day in America.
7) What a rare moment in history when people on both sides are waking up that sometimes safety regulations are good, and slashing regulations because of lobbying influence is bad. You can’t deny this pollution.
8) the irony here is rich… see if you can spot it.
9) Trump should say he recants his deregulation move. He may not even know what Elaine Chao’s DOT did in reversing the brake regulation, to be honest.

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Feb 23
BRAKING—New train sensor data shows **Overheated wheel bearing were 253 degrees above ambient temperature** as the crew applied the brakes.🔥 The crew of a Norfolk Southern @nscorp freight train carrying toxic chemicals tried to slow the train moments nytimes.com/2023/02/23/us/…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
2) Gosh, if only better electronic pneumatic brakes were used for hazardous materials… oh wait, what’s this??? Even Fox News is admitting Trump officials screwed up?? 👇
3) better brakes would have helped avoid disaster not only the initial spill but repeated contamination **EVERY TIME IT RAINS***
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Feb 19
Jimmy Carter is a saint. We didn’t deserve him.

“Carter is the only president in the modern era to return to the house he lived in before politics—a 2-bedroom rancher at ~$167,000, less than the value of the Secret Service vehicles parked outside.”
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2) Carter says he thinks the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision has “changed our political system from a democracy to an oligarchy. Money is now preeminent. I mean, it’s just gone to hell now.” 🔥
3) The Democratic former president decided not to join corporate boards or give speeches for big money because, he says, he didn’t want to “capitalize financially on being in the White House.”
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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
🎥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.
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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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