Buttigieg On Response To East Palestine Train Derailment: Not About ‘Who Looks Good Or Who Looks Bad’
Pete Buttigieg, Transportation Secretary, stated in an interview that East Palestine residents don’t care about politics because their town is suffering the consequences of a train accident that occurred earlier this month.
An overheated wheel bearing on the 23rd rail car of 149 caused the derailment that occurred in Ohio’s small community of West Chester. All residents within one mile were evacuated by local officials. started In an attempt to avoid a major explosion, the train used a controlled burning method to transport vinyl chloride.
Buttigieg’s comments come after he and other members of the Biden administration were subject to intense criticism for their handling of the incident. They also faced widespread accusations that they didn’t care about the matter because the area didn’t vote for Biden in 2020.
“There has been so much information, and frankly so much misinformation thrown at this community and thrown at this situation that a lot them are asking who they can even trust,” Buttigieg claimed. “It’s so important to continue to make sure that they can get good, accurate information about the things they care about most, which isn’t national politics or who looks good or who looks bad, it’s continuing to know that their air, water, and soil are going to be safe, that their homes are going to be safe.”
“That’s what anybody would want to know in this situation,” He added. “You could feel a sense of fatigue with all of the kind of politics swirling around their community.”
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg: It’s not about the poor response of the administration to the toxic train crash in East Palestine, Ohio “Who looks good or who looks bad”
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Texas A&M University On Friday, nine of the 50 chemicals the EPA stated were on the derailed train had higher concentrations in East Palestine than usual. They were particularly concerned by the high levels of acrolein which has a pungent odor and is found in higher than normal amounts. “highly toxic” According to a, when inhaled Report From the CDC.
Other chemicals that were charted at unusually high levels include vinyl chloride, benzene and naphthalene. “If these levels continue, they may be of health concern,” The analysis concluded.
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