The following report is by Common Dreams (excerpts):
The pollution, some of which came from the burning of vinyl chloride, a carcinogen, spread over 540,000 square miles, showing clearly that “the impacts of the fire were larger in scale and scope than the initial predictions,” the authors of the study, published in Environmental Research Letters, found.
Lead author David Gay, coordinator of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, said that he was very surprised by the way the chemicals had spread. “I didn’t expect to see an impact this far out,” he told The Washington Post.
Gay said the results did not mean “death and destruction,” as concentrations were low on an absolute scale—”not melting steel or eating paint off buildings”—but that they were still “very extreme” compared to normal, with measurements higher than recorded in the previous ten years.
“I think we should be concerned,” Juliane Beier, an expert on vinyl chloride effects who didn’t take part in the study, told the Post, citing the possibility of long-term environmental impacts on communities.
A former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official later said that the controlled burn went against EPA rules; the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said the deliberate burning was unnecessary.
The new study helps explain the wider environmental impact. The researchers looked at inorganic compound samples in rain and snow at 260 sites. The highest levels of chloride were found in northern Pennsylvania and near the Canada-New York border, which was downwind from the accident. The authors also found “exceptionally high” pH levels in rain as far away as northern Maine. They did not look at organic compounds such as dioxin or PFAS, which likely also spread following the accident, The Guardian reported. The elevated inorganic chemical levels dropped two to three weeks after the accident.
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“…spread to 16 states and likely Canada…” -Likely? No, it did: we covered it as it happened. SEE: Acid Rain Is Now Being Reported Across The US And Canada After Chemical Release In East Palestine Ohio
The WinePress has a number of reports covering that whole planned and deliberate debacle that completely ruined the lives of the people living there, destroyed the land for many decades to come, and no one was brought to justice (here on earth that is).
Ecclesiastes 5:8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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These derailments are no accident, they are planned.
Soon, there’ll be derailments in other states, and who knows, Lord only knows, railroads might just be shut down – both passenger and cargo.
While most Americans are following Taylor Swift and the Swifty circus or who’s going to win the World Series as it’s baseball season right now, America is becoming undone and unhinged into a nightmare state.
I’m going to guess that the upshot of all this hogwash is that some railroads are being targeted for bankruptcy via lawsuits brought upon them by the likes of those companies that will hire “environmentalists” like Erin Brockovich, who actually appeared at a town meeting in East Palestine after the “spill”. I stumbled upon a sermon by Ruckman on loan that predicted this would happen, based upon what he gleaned from a King James Bible. I’m hoping I might find something in one of his commentaries where he goes more in depth with this.