East Palestine Updates
Stinks like a cover up
Source: ZeroHedge
NTSB Argues Against Having Third Party Examine Evidence From East Palestine Derailment And Chemical Spill
by Tyler Durden
Tuesday, Feb 20, 2024
The NTSB is working to try and prevent a third party from examining evidence in a class action regarding the East Palestine train derailment that wound up spilling noxious chemicals.
The regulator, supposedly working on the behalf of the American public, using American tax dollars, and overseen by Mayor Pete, has said having a third party examine evidence would “impose an undue burden on the agency’s investigative and financial resources.”
In documents submitted to U.S. Judge Benita Y. Pearson of the Northern District Court of Ohio on Wednesday last week, attorneys representing the NTSB expressed opposition to inspection demands made by OxyVinyls LP, GATX Corp., and General American Marks Co. regarding crash site evidence, WKBN wrote.
They argued that such inspections would disrupt the active probe into the Norfolk Southern train derailment on February 3, 2023. After a Norfolk Southern train derailment on February 3, 2023 released vinyl chloride, leading to its combustion and a widely broadcasted smoke cloud, evacuations, and numerous lawsuits followed.
Plaintiffs are demanding compensation for economic and emotional distress, with jury selection scheduled for March 31, 2025.
The lawsuits have mostly been consolidated into a class action, with Norfolk Southern suing OxyVinyls LP, GATX Corp., and another company for their roles with the rail cars or chemicals. Norfolk Southern argued these companies should share liability for the damages.
The companies sought to examine the crash evidence on February 7 to prepare their defense. The NTSB has proposed a limited evidence inspection and plans to release all evidence after a June 25 board meeting, concluding the investigation.
Critics see conflict of interest in East Palestine train derailment cleanup: "It's like the fox guarding the henhouse"
…the rail operator has employed several contractors to test and sample for contaminants in the environment and homes. One of those contractors is the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health, or CTEH, a consulting firm that is steeped in controversy. The company has faced lawsuits over its conduct, and lawmakers have criticized corporations for hiring it in previous disasters.
"It's like the fox guarding the henhouse," said Lesley Pacey, an environmental investigator for the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit that supports whistleblowers and which is suing the EPA to get records on its response to the derailment. "They [CTEH] tend to come up with the result that the polluter would like to see … the BP oil spill, Hurricane Katrina, multiple situations where they went in and didn't find anything wrong."
One-year since East Palestine, are we any safer? What has changed in rail regulations?
The 21 News Watchdog team looked into the concern and found that there has not been any new rail safety regulation mandated since the East Palestine derailment, and any changes to improve safety are either stalled on Capitol Hill or put into effect voluntarily for the private rail companies to decide whether or not to implement.
Ahead of Biden's East Palestine visit, residents release recommendations for federal action
"The CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] has stated that people were exposed to a broad mixture of toxic chemicals and confirmed that the combined and cumulative effects are unknown; however, the CDC also attempted to console the community with assurances that their anticipated cancers were treatable," the letter states.
NTSB doesn’t want third parties to inspect evidence in East Palestine class action
In papers filed Wednesday with U.S. Judge Benita Y. Pearson in the U.S. Northern District Court of Ohio, lawyers for the NTSB said they opposed the requests by OxyVinyls LP and GATX Corp. and General American Marks Co. to inspect evidence from the crash site because it would interfere with the ongoing investigation into the Feb. 3, 2023, derailment of a Norfolk Southern train that released noxious chemicals in the air.
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