Think about all the farm grown foods this has contaminated.

CORRECTION. The disaster DID NOT cause the chemicals to catch fire. The TRAIN COMPANY SET IT ON FIRE. This was ARSON.

But god forbid I put the “wrong” muffler on my car. Prison time for violating the clean air act…

This is criminal why aren't the CEOs of this company in jail?

Who ever set that on fire and helped make that decision should be on trial.

Can’t eat, the food is bad. Can’t drink, the water is bad. Can’t breathe, the air is bad.

You really think this was an accident,we are dying in denial.

They burned these chemicals on purpose.🙄🤦 WTF did they think was going to happen. Sheer stupidity.

There is no safe amount of vinyl chloride.

We are still interested in what happened in East Palestine Ohio!!!

Can't wait for absolutely no one to ever be held accountable for this.

I'm 15 miles from the train wreck.You can smell the funk in the air.People are still getting sick.

And yet the RR CEOs are still raking in billions and being held accountable for nothing.

What we have done to the earth, in the name of profit, is unconscionable.

because they burned it! everyone involved with that decision to burn instead of CLEANING need to be sent to prison. This is criminal.

"You may not be interested..." what a bizarre and insensitive way to open this segment.

Horseshit. He even admitted they burned it to open the railroad. Why is no one being held responsible. Fire everyone at epa and get new people.

Those states have a duty to sue the companies and people responsible for that disaster.

The weather radar images during the burn were horrifying. The winds that day changed 360 degrees spreading pollution everywhere. A few days later, the images were nowhere to be found on the internet.

There's almost nothing worse than poisoning the soil. After all, that's EVERYTHING. Water tables (wells), crops, dust in the air, foundation upon which everything and everyone stands. It's a bloody shame.

the birth rates, fertility rates, and intelligence of people have been falling year after year. Pure coincidence. Wink

Thanks for actually reporting news that affects people.. somehow government and corporate corruption has to end.

The derailment didnt put it in the air as much as them burning it all.....

They know what the health risks and the toxicity of those chemicals are.They just don't want to say it because it's so horribly terrible.

The EPA is a waste of our tax dollars! They’re more worried about cheap plastic bottles and plastic straws than a real catastrophe!

Yet the gov is more concerned about Ukraine than our own people.

This was not an accident. People need to wake up.

This entire train wreck story has been a nightmare from the very beginning. Thanks for this update!

Unacceptable period.

They set it on fire to save the company money. MONEY

I was doing delivery in central PA that day and thought the black lowering clouds were bizarre weather...I'm sure we got affected. There was no official warning from our precious government.

Why aren’t they calling for the arrest of all officials involved? Why aren’t the companies involved being sold off to pay every citizen of all 16 states?

….our biggest threat is corporations

I live an hour from the derailment and the government kept telling us that we weren’t affected. I’m chemically sensitive and I could feel it days after the burn. This whole situation was handled very poorly!

Weird how just a year before this happened, they released a movie about it happening

Whoever decided to burn the material should be in jail.

Should never have been set on fire

Who do I make a claim against?

Its ok for the gov to burn a massive amount of garbage but my old truck is what's ruining the environment. It's all bs

Everyone needs to SUE THEM.

It'll be interesting to see the cancer stats in that part of the country over the next 20 years.

Who's going to jail over this? Anybody? Any sort of punishment or prosecution?

Destroying ourselves through narcissistic greed...

Why would anyone in their right mind set these chemicals on fire?

Sadly, we all have needed NEW RAILS,& NEW TRAINS since the 1940's.

NOT acceptable on any level! I like my fresh air. How about you?

The administration was never interested in this disaster. It was nothing more than a PR inconvenience. FJB

Is anyone at all concerned with the fact she said in this news report “just how far those toxins spread when they WERE SET ON FIRE” she used that language specifically because this was no accident.

EVERYONE of those involved in spreading and magnifying that disaster need to be in jail!

And ignored by the same people who never shut up about how important the planet is to take care of 😮

Everything in the environment is connected!!!! If someone pees in one tiny corner of a swimming pool, THE ENTIRE POOL HAS BEEN PEED IN!!! Dumping toxic chemicals in the environment is the same thing.

Instead of pumping the chemicals into other empty tanks , it was dumped and burned.

As a devoted Railfan, we need to bring back rules for toxic chemical trains

I was wondering how long it would take to get back to this issue. 16 months is wild, I remember no one believed the gov saying it was safe

many 3 letter agencies need an overhaul and many people deserve to go to jail...

Just imagine how these toxic substances are traveling around our nation everyday. No wonder cancer rates are up. And then think about the contaminated farm land, and what’s in the food we eat 😮

Holy crap that’s soooo bad. Who decided to burn it ???

Who ever gave the ok to burn that off should be held accountable why in the world would that be ok to do. Why didn't they pump it into other containers it's reduculous.

Well as I recall it…They trucked a lot of the toxic soil to other states.

Unfuckinbelievable. Bomb train? SET IT ON FIRE?????? WTF.

Seriously? No comment about how it affects health.

LAWSUIT TIME😡

Some idiots decided to burn the contents of those train cars. I’m sure the MSDS did not approve that.

And the Biden administration could care less.

Took this long for the information to get out. What else is being hidden.

And still we the people will do nothing about this information

Good thing the president stepped in immediately and provided the people with a means of safety and everything they needed to tackle this horrific disaster!... nah, Ukraine is more important.

Drove through Columbus Ohio on June 19th 2024 and the air was so bad that I couldn’t breathe and started coughing bad the whole area was foggy and smelled acrid. I don’t know how people can live there

So.sad and no one held accountable government dont care about us look and see

And of course we can't talk about the health problems to humans because we are not qualified. SMH

I can't believe you reported this whole story and never named the persons or agencies that made the decision. "THEY had the EPA's blessing ... THEY WHO? This is not journalism, it is scandal mongering. Citing that it is in the air, and not citing HOW it harms people is another big let down. THUMBS DOWN!

Biden toured 12 months later. Not a disaster to worry about.

Never ever burn chemicals to get rid of them !!! So stupid I'm stunned at the idiocy involved here.

I want a list of the full names of the people who made every single wrong decision that day.

So let me get this straight: I throw a bottle out of my car window and get fined $200, but a major corp. explodes a train full of toxic vinyl chloride and nothing happens? Whoopsies?

Meanwhile, college students in America protest over what's happening in a Plaestine on the other side of the world that 90% of them couldn't find it on a map.

And yet our government has abandoned these people and now how many others? It’s sick!!

Proves this was a deliberate act against all whom live in states around ground zero 😢

Whoever made the decision to set that fire should be jailed for life.

and the EPA is looking up our ass to what repairs we make on our cars but say nothing about this terrorism

This is the type of stuff that needs to be on the news , not political drama! Things that are really affecting us all.

But Pete Buttplug said it was safe as could be.

Put this rail road company out of business once and for all. Class action lawsuits

SUE the EPA for negligence.

Why wasn't this reported as an issue by the listed states? Didn't they notice at the water treatment plants that there was additional chemicals in the water? Why so quite 🤔

I live in one of these zones and I guarantee you that I'm going to see me a very very good attorney.

Why all of a sudden? All these disasters with transportation? Hmmm, I think we asking the wrong questions!

Somebody needs form a group of these affected people and file a trillion dollar lawsuit against the RR. Their lack of accountability is disgusting.

Thank you for the updates! I have been praying for these people each and every day. I knew these toxins would spread!!!

There won't be any justice for this either GEE what a shocker.

May those intentionally involved be held accountable!! May all their plans backfire!

As a former Pennsylvanian, I am so saddened for all who live in that area💔🙈😢

This was a quick solution that all affected residents were not considered. Money ruled this burn, and our Governor failed us, as well, the EPA, and continue on with the coverup.

Never trusted the EPA since 911. “The air is safe to breathe in NY.” 🤢

16 states ??? That’s one hell of as train wreck ? Geeze that’s alarming .

The derailment was not an accident, it was an intentional act.

I hope this guy who's wondering where EPA remembers how the EPA got upended to begin with. they all stood behind someone who said EPA needed to basically be defunded and underminded staff were defanged basically! was fine with regulations going away increasing billionaires margins, plus tax cuts! Literally allowing them to get away with polluting, not just the air we breathe, but water flows Downstream... so it wasn't just those States it was everything that those States came in contact with- including the food that you eat that gets shipped out from there. This is what's at stake, it's not just our democracy it's our planet. This is the same party that doesn't want you to have health care and will gladly take your Social Security away so that billionaires don't have to pay but $750 in taxes and buy a new jet and laugh at you as they fly over -by the way probably dropping jet fuel as they come into land. Don't worry I also heard Indiana Farmland is rapidly being bought up by Chinese interest so you think they're going to Care Monsanto is going to be stoked

Greed and selfishness are destroying everything.

Don't you love delegation? Thanks again, government, for taking care of corporations.

Is this why my garden last year produced poorly for the first time?