Saturday's Sad Absurdity: Ex-EPA Chief of Staff Nails the Real Problem in East Palestine Response
During an appearance on Fox & Friends Saturday morning, former EPA Chief of Staff Mandy Gunesakara hit the nail on the head related to the Biden administration’s absurdly slow response to the toxic spill in East Palestine, Ohio.
Question from Fox Host Pete Hegseth: “What would be the ‘why’ here? You have an environmental disaster. It should take 20 minutes, 2 hours for the EPA to realize ‘this is a problem, we’d better get there.’ Yet, it took two weeks. Why?”
Gunasekara: “This administration is distracted. They’re hyper-focused on their climate agenda, and while they’re doing that, they’re ignoring the real work of the EPA.”
This is it, exactly. Congress created the U.S. EPA to work to clean up the environment, to deal with real pollution and real environmental disasters and their cleanup. It was not created to obsess over how much plant food is in the atmosphere.
Dealing with an environmental disaster like this vinyl chloride spill is supposed to be the EPA’s core duty. Instead, this administration treats it like an inconvenience, and the residents in that region suffer as a result.
EPA Administrator Mike Regan, who finally made his way out to East Palestine on Friday - which is better than Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has done - idiotically said “I want them (East Palestine residents) to trust the government.”
My goodness. What reason has Regan or anyone in the Biden administration given those people that would lead them to believe they can trust the feds to deal with this environmental catastrophe? That’s just a completely brain dead statement to make.
Read the damn room, Michael.
Overnight, Jennifer Homendy, the current Chairperson of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), issued a tweet thread in which she tacitly chastised Buttigieg for spreading “MISINFORMATION” in his lame effort to try to blame his own incompetence and neglect on the Trump administration.
Here’s what she said:
In other words, Buttigieg either doesn’t understand his own regulations or was intentionally trying to mislead the public in a pathetic effort to cover up his own incompetence.
Finally, we’ve all seen the ubiquitous ambulance-chasing lawyer ads over the past few years trying to drum up plaintiffs for the class action lawsuits against the government over the massive pollution issue that devastated the water in Camp Lejeune and the surrounding area for decades.
Guess what was in the water at Camp Lejeune that caused so much illness and death? Vinyl Chloride.
Oh.
Make no mistake about this: What is happening in and around East Palestine, Ohio right now is one of the worst environmental disasters in the U.S. in this century. And the Biden administration is so focused on obsessing about plant food that it is treating it all as an afterthought.
Damn these people.
That is all.
2 Comments. First, love "plant food", perfect. Second, I am really concerned for the people around East Palestine. I have family just south of there. My mom and dozens of relatives live in a small town on the Ohio River. You can see the river if you look out her living room window. No homes on other side of street, potential flood area. They get their water from the river as do thousands of other people. Who knows just how far or long lasting this will be or how far it will spread. This could be worse than the water issue in Flint MI. Both caused by stupid, utterly stupid politicians.