I'm not an environmental activist myself, but the first group that came to my mind, Greenpeace, is already talking about it: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/ohio-train-wreck-could-be-bid...
> no one is reporting on it detail (sic)
Besides the article you're commenting on?
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/01/what-happened-to-90s-e...
Please ask around acquaintances who live in Ohio, friends of friends, how well informed they were/are about these events and at what point they got looped in. You can find that out first hand, I believe in you.
People should be held to a bare minimum expectation to inform themselves properly before acting as if our government and media are horrendously corrupt.
Examples of articles on mainstream sites reporting on the derailment soon after the event (some articles showed up on the front pages as well):
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/train-derailment-causes-mas... https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-ohio-evacuations-fir... https://www.foxnews.com/us/ohio-train-derailment-causes-mass... https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/04/us/east-palestine-ohio-tr...
Yes I can. For moving the goal-post as well.
I see this trope on most conservative news outlets and it's honestly outrageous.
The answer is simple: the environmental activists have always been there, but not a lot of people listened, a lot of people actually mocked them, not a lot of news outlets told their story and finally, not enough money went into PACs to actually make a difference. It is indeed sickening. Maybe in the future, we won't be voting for freedom loving regulation hating corrupt morons.
https://peoplesworld.org/article/no-more-bomb-trains-environ...
Knee jerk reactions can be just as dangerous
https://news.google.com/search?q=ohio%20train%20disaster&hl=...
Aside from this article and thousands of others like it? If this is the railroad and government's best effort at suppressing news, they're failing miserably.
It's all big money converted into political power. Seeing it as / blaming _national_ media won't fix anything. Neither will voting for 1/2 of a bipartisan landscape.
So, on which side of the problem are you? Are you effected by the story or actually "woke" enough to know of other incidents, where "too big to fail" turned "to big to account for"? Like the US, shaping latin america.
Also being the new Ohio, maybe the State Gov has no issues ignoring EPA regs :(
Yes, the sarcasm is dripping, but it is not far off from the beliefs of some legislative types. Whether they are MAGA or not is not relevant. We've seen this long before MAGA was a thing.
But hey now, contaminate an entire town with toxic industrial chemicals..you get a slap on the wrist. It’s pretty obvious what their agenda is, and it has nothing to do with the environment.
If criminal investigative agencies have been caught faking DNA results in criminal cases (SBI lab in NC) because there was a conflict of interest between prosecuting cases and the defendent, you certainly can't trust corporations.
The idea the EPA needs to follow some vetted and lengthy process with responsible experts is completely false. They have chosen to downplay this on purpose and the actions they are taking are are 100% political.
All the others pick and choose their causes based on political opportunism. Indeed where are all the environmental organizations that would typically be pillorying Corp america or an uncaring government? Where are their vocal marches and demands for rectification and justice?
It’s a lot of crickets…
Grass roots may create enough noise by 1000 horns to force the hand of the big media and a foot-dragging, uninterested fed government.
They went to the same place that the activists who were protesting Big Pharma went in the last few years. Clearly on some kind of vacation.
Or do you mean you want someone else doing hard work with no reward on a subject that is currently personal to you? Ah yeah, the 1960s are over friend. But if you regularly and consistently have donated to environmental orgs in the past give them a call, they do listen to people in their movements.
The LAT, WaPo, NYT, Chicago Tribune, and Cleveland Plains-Dealer have all discussed the crash and the toxicity of the chemicals involved and their potential effects on humans and the local environment.
What sort of "news suppression" do you think is going on?
You didn't hear that Erin Brockovich is on it? The media has been reporting about her, specifically, for well over a week. And she's not the only one talking about it, and more importantly holding town hall events with East Palestine residents: https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/special-reports/train-dera...