🧵"I'm angry we are living through this...I don't want to know someone a year from now who died from cancer from being exposed to [toxic chemicals], I'm begging you to do something," -#EastPalestine's Lonnie Miller begging EPA & Norfolk Southern to relocate residents who want it
90 days of "excruciating unexplained muscle pain," 30 doctors visits, 6 antibiotics, 3 steroids, daughter "can't stop puking," -Lori, 3.4 miles from derailment, on family's health since derailment.
Husband also diagnosed w/ rare breast cancer post-derailment. Dogs also sick.
"I get these rashes, my eyes burn, burning in my mouth, the headaches, I get really bad sweating spells to where they smell like chemicals...my grandkids come over and their fine. Next morning they're congested & complaining of stomach problems," #EastPalestine's Chris Davis
If you have 2 hours this week/weekend, PLEASE WATCH/SHARE this whole #EastPalestine community meeting. One of the most powerful, heart wrenching, infuriating things we've covered. Reporting by @louisd, video by @JonFarinaPhoto
@louisd @JonFarinaPhoto SUPPORT our ON-THE-GROUND reporting. This is SC and @louisd217's 4th reporting trip to EP. Sadly, there was only 1 other media outlet present covering this. Majority of media has abandoned East Palestine. We will not but need funding to keep going back: StatusCoup.com/Join
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🚨"All of a sudden we don't hear from [Vance]..." -sick East Palestine, OH resident Krissy Ferguson on how Sen. J.D. Vance's office abruptly stopped reaching out to residents struggling a year-and-a-half after Norfolk Southern DETONATED cancerous chemicals over the town.
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Vance was told by NTSB chair: 1) NS UNNECESSARILY blew up 5 rail cars of toxic vinyl chloride over EP/western PA 2) NS IGNORED EXPERTS telling them not to. 3) NS LIED to Gov. DeWine/fire chief
But Vance wouldn't call for a criminal investigation into NS
When our @louisd217 confronted Vance asking if there should be criminal charges against NS, he said he needed to see more evidence and the final NTSB report.
Both have come...Vance has still not called for charges or an investigation into Norfolk Southern
🚨EXCLUSIVE: EPA Hid Discovery of Toxic Vinyl Chloride in East Palestine, Won't Disclose Levels Found
"They're hiding things they find," chemist Stephen Lester tells us, adding VC has “likely been leaking into the air & groundwater since derailment." statuscoup.substack.com/p/exclusive-ep…
In text messages obtained by SC, EPA's Mark Durno told PA resident who lives near EP derailment site that EPA detected vinyl chloride—the toxicant for which Norfolk Southern detonated 116,000 gallons of (5 trains) on 2/6/23—in soil at derailment site and then dug it out...
When PA resident asked if EPA notified the public, Durno said no, rationalizing that "VC was just above the very conservative screening level." He assured her that digging up the VC posed no risk of the cancer-causing toxicant spreading into the air. SEVERAL experts disagree...
🚨 In stunning exchange, NTSB chair told @JDVance1 Norfolk Southern not only ignored REPEATED warnings from owner of TOXIC vinyl chloride rail cars that it was UNNECESSARY TO DETONATE 5 cars over East Palestine—Norfolk hid this from @GovMikeDeWine & EP fire chief b4 detonation.
@JDVance1 @GovMikeDeWine .@JDVance1 asked did NS detonate cars "not because it was necessary but because it allowed them to move traffic & freight more quickly?”
When challenged in February by our @louisd217 whether NS officials should be criminally charged, he said he needed to see "more evidence"...
@JDVance1 @GovMikeDeWine @louisd217 At hearing, NTSB chair confirmed that the temperatures of the 5 TOXIC vinyl chloride cars that NS detonated were GOING DOWN & were chemically STABILIZED—indicating the cars did not need to be detonated over East Palestine (which has sickened residents & nearby PA residents)...
🚨Contrary to NYPD & its media allies, our @JonFarinaPhoto's footage CLEARLY shows Ceasefire protesters were clearing the street to allow an emergency vehicle through when an NYPD office violently dragged a protester—who was WALKING AWAY FROM HIM—in front of emergency vehicle...
@JonFarinaPhoto Also, separate from normal procedure, the emergency vehicle was not audibly blaring its sirens nor issuing audible commands through megaphone ordering protesters to clear the road. SEPARATELY, a protester was PUNCHED by NYPD.
"The NYPD punched me, that's why my lip is bleeding!"
@JonFarinaPhoto "Are you out of your fu*king mind? I'm a fu*king legal observer" -a protester/legal observer shouted as police continued violently brutalizing Ceasefire Now protesters
🚨"Please declare an emergency declaration—save our kids!" -sick #EastPalestine residents shouted at OH statehouse as they were REMOVED. "If @GovMikeDeWine does not [declare emergency], there a lot of residents who can't get help."
4 months after Norfolk Southern DETONATION...
@GovMikeDeWine#EastPalestine residents continue to suffer from bloody noses, nausea, dizziness, burning eyes, chemical burns, sinus issues, headaches, sore throat, numb lips & tongue, fatigue and even blood coming from their rectums...
@GovMikeDeWine Yet, the EPA continues to tell residents air, water, and soil testing are producing safe levels (despite EPA officials acknowledging their equipment can't detect all contamination levels). And Gov. DeWine, inexplicably, refuses to declare a state of emergency...