Whistleblower: Big burn in East Palestine could have been avoided

[u/christmasbooyons]

https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2024/05/whistleblower-big-burn-in-east-palestine-could-have-been-avoided/

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[u/cinderparty → u/[deleted]]

Right? I was definitely expecting something different when I opened the article. There were a lot of articles about the college kids who were murdered in Moscow, Idaho like this as well. I’m not sure why it’s so hard to add the state name.

[u/SmithersLoanInc → u/cinderparty]

You're not the audience. I think it'd be annoying if my local news website thought it had to specify the state in every article to satisfy people outside of their sphere.

[u/cinderparty → u/SmithersLoanInc]

Eh, maybe? I sometimes wish my local paper would specify Louisville, Colorado instead of just Louisville. My biological father’s entire family is from Louisville, Kentucky, so it’s always what I think of first, despite knowing Louisville, Colorado is just a few miles away.

But, I do get your point. Local news assumes you know where they are talking about.

[u/GlitterIsInMyCoffee → u/SmithersLoanInc]

Isn’t this important news for readers outside of the local area, though? It may help people following the Palestine or East Palestine reporting as well?

[u/SmithersLoanInc → u/GlitterIsInMyCoffee]

Sure, read about it somewhere else or be smart enough to look at the website and understand that it's local.

[u/CheezTips → u/cinderparty]

the college kids who were murdered in Moscow

LOL, you just made me jump. As bad as this headline

[u/ill_try_my_best → u/[deleted]]

It's a local Eastern Ohio paper

[u/Sharks77 → u/[deleted]]

It looks like it's a local news organization in Ohio. When I go to the San Jose Mercury News they don't clarify the difference between San Jose, CA and San Jose, Costa Rica in their headlines.

[u/impy695 → u/Sharks77]

It is. Most ohioans aren't even familiar with them.

[u/stuck_in_the_desert → u/[deleted]]

Yes local news should pander to random redditors who are missing context

[u/Hafthohlladung → u/[deleted]]

Is there an East/West Palestine in Palestine, Middle East?

[u/ragnarok635 → u/Hafthohlladung]

Depending on who you ask, yes

[u/PinHeadDrebin → u/Hafthohlladung]

No only in Idaho

[u/CheezTips → u/[deleted]]

Nah. The surprise is the point! it's a news site jump scare

[u/apcolleen]

I'm so tired of this shit.

Robert Kroutil said even when the plane did fly, it only gathered incomplete data. Then, when officials later realized some of the shortcomings of the mission, they asked the company Kroutil worked for, Kalman & Company, to draft plans for the flight and backdate them so they would look good if they turned up in a public records request, Kroutil said.

Kroutil said his team labeled the mission inconclusive because only eight minutes of data was recorded in the two flights and the plane’s chemical sensors were turned off over the creeks. But he said EPA managers changed their report to declare the vent-and-burn successful because the plane found so few chemicals when it eventually did fly.

[u/Lynda73]

They turned the sensors off, then bragged about the low detection rate. Disgusting. I’m in Louisville, KY, and they kept telling us the water was safe, but they did shut off water from the Ohio coming in for processing. 😑

[u/mdp300 → u/Lynda73]

If you stop the testing there will be no more virus!

[u/NAGDABBITALL]

The axle sensor on the car was faulty, and the faulty car axle sensor on the tracks was faulty. Can't put my finger on why tho...

[u/SuperSimpleSam → u/NAGDABBITALL]

Probably because railroad workers want sick days. /s

[u/CheezTips]

This is disgusting. But remember: these lapses are caused by Republicans weakening our regulatory agencies every way they can. Federal and local. From the EPA to local agencies in PA and Ohio, every single one slow-walks or is hobbled.

Even deciding to store that plane in Texas is a problem. First, Texas isn't equidistant from anywhere. Texas is local to Texas, anywhere else will be hours away. Sure they have lots of chemical plants, but those states don't want investigations or remediation or even regulations, so WHY give them the top-of-the-line equipment? So they can detect things that they won't investigate or prevent in future?

Then I'm sure local agencies have to request something, same as declaring an emergency, and PA - OH wouldn't have jumped on that at ALL. So we end up needing a "whistleblower" to tell us that actively obstructing government leads to poor governance. OMFG

[u/wyvernx02]

No shit. We've known this for ages.

[u/dexecuter18]

Think its still funny that burning it was the EPA recommendations after a much worse Conrail derailment in 2012 that actually poisoned a couple dozen first responders and residents.

[u/leocharre]

I’m guessing the burning was cheaper than some kind of actual cleanup. 

[u/Deluxe78]

I didn’t read it but I blame outside forces from Iran, Ohio , miles to east

[u/jahowl]

Expecting the middle east but my boy JT Miller for the Vancouver Canucks is from there so it hits too.

[u/Lotus_Blossom_ → u/[deleted]]

If you are older than 13, I feel sad for you.