The EPA's claim that water is "safe" to drink was based on lab tests done by the rail company that caused the disaster. The EPA has still not tested independently.
When the orange stain hired Scott Pruitt to disable the EPA, Pruitt did a thorough job, either directly removing long standing employees or making the place so horrible that people left. Biden has not even tried to replace the former scientists and technicians with the same quality employees. And yes corporations are now completely running the country.
It’s the same thing with the FDA and CDC, which have become nothing more than federal marketing divisions for the pharmaceutical companies. Mandating a vaccine that prevents neither illness nor transmission for a segment of the population that is at nearly zero risk of serious illness from the virus the vaccine targets is about profit, nothing more.
Meanwhile in Alberta, Canada, we just had a 5300 cubic metre overland spill from a toxic oilsands tailings pond , the largest yet. At this time it also came to light that this tailings pond had been leaking into the groundwater for months. Imperial Oil and the Alberta Energy Regulator had met in secret but failed to warn local First Nations who live and hunt on this land. https://globalnews.ca/news/9523133/alberta-band-chief-imperial-oil-kearl-oilsands-tailings-spill-silence/
It's like putting the wolf in charge of the hen house, isn't it? Neither Norfolk Southern nor our federal or state EPAs have the heath and safety of the American public at heart. They're all busy working up their cover stories as to how none of it is their fault. If there was ever a time to expose capitalism for the evil that it is, this derailment and consequent toxic chemical burn is it. "Privatize the profits, socialize the costs--and keep the public in the dark," is the creed of capitalists everywhere. Time for them to go.
When the orange stain hired Scott Pruitt to disable the EPA, Pruitt did a thorough job, either directly removing long standing employees or making the place so horrible that people left. Biden has not even tried to replace the former scientists and technicians with the same quality employees. And yes corporations are now completely running the country.
The people of Ohio should be very angry.
It’s the same thing with the FDA and CDC, which have become nothing more than federal marketing divisions for the pharmaceutical companies. Mandating a vaccine that prevents neither illness nor transmission for a segment of the population that is at nearly zero risk of serious illness from the virus the vaccine targets is about profit, nothing more.
Meanwhile in Alberta, Canada, we just had a 5300 cubic metre overland spill from a toxic oilsands tailings pond , the largest yet. At this time it also came to light that this tailings pond had been leaking into the groundwater for months. Imperial Oil and the Alberta Energy Regulator had met in secret but failed to warn local First Nations who live and hunt on this land. https://globalnews.ca/news/9523133/alberta-band-chief-imperial-oil-kearl-oilsands-tailings-spill-silence/
It's like putting the wolf in charge of the hen house, isn't it? Neither Norfolk Southern nor our federal or state EPAs have the heath and safety of the American public at heart. They're all busy working up their cover stories as to how none of it is their fault. If there was ever a time to expose capitalism for the evil that it is, this derailment and consequent toxic chemical burn is it. "Privatize the profits, socialize the costs--and keep the public in the dark," is the creed of capitalists everywhere. Time for them to go.