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tylersusername t1_je0wdcu wrote

Reply to comment by EthanSayfo in [Baltimore Sun] 🚨East Palestine, Ohio wastewater won't be treated at Baltimore company following rejection from Mayor Brandon Scott's administration.🚨 by z3mcs

If you read the statement Clean Harbors released to Baltimore City officials, they said the wastewater was initially tested and found to contain vinyl chloride levels between 0-62 parts per billion among the various railcars. For reference, the EPA set the regulatory limit for vinyl chloride in waste to be 200 ppb under the Resource Recovery and Conservation Act of 1976. It’s minimal contaminant that requires simple treatment. Sure it’s good to be skeptical, but shouldn’t we also trust the national experts to decide where is the best place to get rid of this waste? This waste has to go somewhere.

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EthanSayfo t1_je0xk29 wrote

Why should we trust environmental officials that are largely beholden to for-profit corporations? Are you aware of the shift in mission EPA took on in the last administration, and how many competent people left Federal government during that time?

Have you observed the state of the environment, lately? The one with massive amounts of problems, that said officials are supposed to be protecting us from?

If Back River and all aspects of the facility and its operations had an exceptional track record, do you think people would be responding this forcefully? No, they wouldn’t. I wouldn’t have made a string of calls, if I knew they were capable of even their basic mission.

I have an idea. Let’s build a massive toxic chemical containment facility on the property of everyone whose net worth is over, say, $100 million. We can build facilities sized proportionally to their net worth. We’d clean the environment up right fast, if this was the approach.

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rmphys t1_je28jhm wrote

This is literally the right wing logic used to ignore climate change by claiming the scientist who present the data profit off it. Stop spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories.

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