{"id":1845676,"date":"2023-02-13T17:50:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T22:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1845676"},"modified":"2023-02-13T17:55:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T22:55:21","slug":"after-train-crash-nuked-ohio-town-with-toxic-chemicals-buttigieg-focuses-on-bigger-threat-white-construction-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-train-crash-nuked-ohio-town-with-toxic-chemicals-buttigieg-focuses-on-bigger-threat-white-construction-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"After Train Crash &#8216;Nuked&#8217; Ohio Town With Toxic Chemicals, Buttigieg Focuses on Bigger Threat: White Construction Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fafter-train-crash-nuked-ohio-town-with-toxic-chemicals-buttigieg-focuses-on-bigger-threat-white-construction-workers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1845676&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>In one of his first public appearances since a massive train derailment released poisonous chemicals in eastern Ohio, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg avoided discussing the disaster\u2014instead criticizing construction workers for being too white.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have heard way too many stories from generations past of infrastructure where you got a neighborhood, often a neighborhood of color, that finally sees the project come to them, but everyone in the hard hats on that project, doing the good paying jobs, don&#8217;t look like they came from anywhere near the neighborhood,&#8221; Monday was the National Association of Counties Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation secretary did not mention the February 3rd derailment of a Norfolk Southern train at East Palestine, Ohio. This has forced authorities into releasing toxic chemicals like phosgene or vinyl chloride to prevent an explosion and make the tracks operational.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open,&#8221; Sil Caggiano, a hazardous materials specialist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wboy.com\/news\/national\/3-additional-chemicals-discovered-on-east-palestine-train-derailment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telled<\/a> A local news outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg has been mum on the incident\u2014the transportation secretary&#8217;s Twitter and press releases have omitted any mention of the crash\u2014even as reports have emerged that animals and fish are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/world\/north-america\/definitely-not-safe-animals-falling-sick-dying-near-hellish-ohio-train-derailment-site\/news-story\/87f5a9a8b5be4e6f99b140a5a17946bf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/world\/north-america\/definitely-not-safe-animals-falling-sick-dying-near-hellish-ohio-train-derailment-site\/news-story\/87f5a9a8b5be4e6f99b140a5a17946bf&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1676406564144000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2I1igrKJsUhpjjVUCyWNlx\">Dying<\/a> Nearby chemical releases. The potential effects on the human population are unknown. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, anyone who is experiencing symptoms should consult a doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro, a Democratic senator from Pennsylvania, stated that it was safe for residents to return home because water and air testing were acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Caggiano claimed he was surprised by how fast authorities advised people that they could return home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of what ifs, and we&#8217;re going to be looking at this thing 5, 10, 15, 20 years down the line and wondering, &#8216;Gee, cancer clusters could pop up, you know, well water could go bad,&#8221; Caggiano said.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Transportation didn&#8217;t respond to our request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of his first public appearances since a massive train derailment released poisonous chemicals in eastern Ohio, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg avoided discussing the disaster\u2014instead criticized construction workers for being too white.<br \/>\nThe post After Train Crash &#8216;Nuked&#8217; Ohio Town With Toxic Chemicals, Buttigieg Focuses on Bigger Threat: White Construction Workers appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1845679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[18549,8356,4943,18550,5919,6444,11423,4333,4104,9167,9660,9985,3765,5015],"class_list":["post-1845676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-nuked","tag-bigger","tag-buttigieg","tag-chemicals","tag-construction","tag-crash","tag-focuses","tag-ohio","tag-threat","tag-town","tag-toxic","tag-train","tag-white","tag-workers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1845679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}