Posted on 02/15/2023 8:46:04 PM PST by bitt
The company hired by Norfolk Southern has already persuaded 340 residents to sign agreements that reportedly waive their legal rights in the aftermath of Ohio's train crash.
The Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health (CTEH), a private contractor hired by Norfolk Southern to test water, soil, and air quality in East Palestine, Ohio, has a history of minimizing the effects of environmental disasters to satisfy its corporate employers, according to critics.
While the Arkansas-based firm provides consulting services to various industries, it is known for performing toxicology monitoring for the oil and gas industry following health and safety incidents.
After a million gallons of oil spilled on a Louisiana town in 2005, after a flood of toxic coal ash smothered central Tennessee in 2008, and after defective Chinese drywall began plaguing Florida homeowners, CTEH was on the scene — saying everything was fine.
In each of these cases, the toxicology firm was alleged to be supplying the data its employers wanted while falsely assuring the public that they were safe from harm.
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The company’s work for BP in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, for example, drew accusations of the “fox guarding the chicken coop” from the New York Times and “conflicts of interest” from Democrats in Congress.
New York Times:
"As BP continues to claim that the leaking oil has caused "no significant exposures," despite the hospitalization of several workers and the sparse release of test data, these observers of CTEH's work say the firm has a vested interest in finding a clean bill of health to satisfy its corporate employer.
"It's essentially the fox guarding the chicken coop," said Nicholas Cheremisinoff, a former Exxon chemical engineer who now consults on pollution prevention. "There is a huge incentive for them to under-report" the size of the spill, Cheremisinoff added, and "the same thing applies on the health and safety side."
Another toxicologist familiar with CTEH, who requested anonymity to avoid retribution from the firm, described its chemical studies as designed to meet the goals of its clients. "They're paid to say everything's OK," this source said. "Their work product is, basically, they find the least protective rules and regulations and rely on those."
Matt Landon, a staff member at the anti-mountaintop removal mining group United Mountain Defense, encountered CTEH in the wake of the 2008 breach in a coal ash dam run by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Landon said his group began its own air monitoring after finding CTEH employees installing low-volume monitors that community advocates believed were not strong enough to measure air quality in compliance with EPA standards.
"People were getting sick," Landon recalled, "eyes swelling up, rashes, ear aches, wedding bands tarnishing. They said it was taking them time to get high-volume monitors out there.""
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and people are signing away their rights? probably the same people who took the jab.
Maybe we need to get the EPA DC EXPERTS involved. More Biden, DS propagandists feeding the government media stooges their narrative to make the DC trusting rubes feel secure. Heh, the wave of cancers in this small rural conservative community are probably a few years away. Who cares?
Tucker has been all over this story.
Ohio EPA is doing the all testing necessary
Sounds like something I read about the pharmaceutical companies and the FDA. Many, many moons ago taxpayers funded the FDA. The FDA regulates the pharmaceutical companies. Now, the pharmaceutical companies contribute a large portion of the FDA’s budget. No possible conflict there, noooo.....
No the testing company shows up at a property and tells the owners we are here to test the air soil and water and sign this before we start.. umm sounds like the rail road wants to skate
yeah. sounds like their kind of guile. sign nothing. i’d invite them onto the property under observation, or volunteer to bring them the samples.
Probably in the interests of “saving time so we can fix things quicker”.
I watched a court trial and one of the things they showed was the interrogation of the 21 year old guy that was blamed for a bad accident. (He was found not guilty). But in the interrogation he was so worried about getting his phone back quickly he just let the cops have it and signed the form instead of having them get a warrant.
By giving it to them he waived any rights regarding other possible illegal activity on the phone. (There was none, but...)
I wonder if the people running the tests are willing to drink the water they say is safe.
“Now, the pharmaceutical companies contribute a large portion of the FDA’s budget. No possible conflict there, noooo.....
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You never hear a peep about that do you?
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