INTERVIEWER: So, what do you say to them? What is that answer? She’s one of dozens of scientists in East Palestine helping answer those questions about air quality. NARRATOR: Sarah Burnett is a toxicologist with CTEH, an environmental consulting firm. Many remain unsatisfied with the Environmental Protection Agency response and much of the testing that was carried out by contractors for Norfolk Southern, featured in a video the company posted online. Will you do that?ĪLAN SHAW: Everything is on the table, sir.ĪMY GOODMAN: The Ohio Department of Health reports East Palestine residents continue to experience headaches, as well as coughing, fatigue, irritation, burning of the skin, after the train derailment. BERNIE SANDERS: What’s right is to cover their healthcare needs. Does that include paying for their healthcare needs, all of their healthcare needs?ĪLAN SHAW: Senator, we’re going to do what’s right for the citizens of East Palestine. BERNIE SANDERS: You talked about covering the needs of the people of East Palestine. And it seems like every week there’s another accident that Norfolk Southern is a part of.ĪMY GOODMAN: During his testimony, Shaw also faced questions from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders about covering the health costs of those impacted by the toxic derailment. ED MARKEY: Well, you’re not having a good month. And I am committed to making Norfolk Southern’s safety culture the best in the industry. Our safety stats, Senator, continue to improve. And last year, our accident rate - our number of accidents was the lowest it had been in the last 10 years. And last year we invested over a billion dollars in safety. Shaw, that last year Norfolk Southern made $3.3 billion in profits?ĪLAN SHAW: Yes, sir. This is part of the exchange with Democratic Senator Ed Markey. Shaw testified before the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee just days after the third derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in the U.S. I’m Amy Goodman.įive weeks after the Norfolk Southern train disaster in the small town of East Palestine, Ohio, the company’s CEO Alan Shaw was grilled on Capitol Hill Thursday about the February 3rd derailment and so-called controlled burn that blanketed the town with a toxic brew of at least six hazardous chemicals and gases, including vinyl chloride, which, when heated, becomes phosgene, the World War I chemical weapon. Also joining us is Judith Enck, a former EPA regional administrator and president of Beyond Plastics whose recent Boston Globe op-ed is headlined “The East Palestine Disaster Was a Direct Result of the Country’s Reliance on Fossil Fuels and Plastic.”ĪMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,. She is executive director of Until Justice Data Partners and co-lead for the Coming Clean science team. For more on the ongoing fallout from the toxic crash, and its roots in the plastics industry, we are joined by Monica Unseld, a biologist and environmental and social justice advocate who has studied the health impact of endocrine-disrupting chemicals used in plastics like those released in East Palestine. The company has evaded calls to cover healthcare costs as residents continue to report headaches, coughing, fatigue, irritation and burning of the skin. Five weeks after the Norfolk Southern toxic train derailment and so-called controlled burn that blanketed the town with a toxic brew of at least six hazardous chemicals and gases, senators grilled the CEO of Norfolk Southern over the company’s toxic train derailment.
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