This administration? You're lucky there's anything left of the EPA at all. The reason for removal of the information was not given, for which there could be many legitimate reasons. One possibility; the area appears to have been previously contaminated by incineration. It makes no sense to publish information that will potentially be directly related to this train crash by opportunists, if you have no baseline of what existed beforehand. Which brings us to the elephant in the room, inadequate public protection from emmission abusers of all sorts.
"Trump’s presidency proudly presided over a
bonfire of regulations, including health and safety controls, and eviscerated almost 100 environmental protections."
"East Palestine’s waste disposal has raised fresh questions about the disposal of toxic substances. Some of the waste is being sent to incinerators around Ohio, while about 1.5m gallons of wastewater is being injected into wells deep into the Earth’s crust near Houston. Deep wells can leak waste into groundwater, and are thought to cause earthquakes.
Meanwhile, some contaminated soil was shipped to a Michigan landfill with a history of discharging PFAS into a public sewer system. A state-of-the-art incinerator in Arkansas is likely equipped to more safely handle the East Palestine waste, Kiger said."
Obfuscation of information in the public domain goes well back to the 80's when EXXON and scores of other companies began painting out logos on their tanks and creating shell companies for their questionable activities making it nearly impossible for the general public to ever find out who is responsible for anything going on in their neighborhoods. Its virtually impossible to find any technical details of any industrial site anywhere, including plans that must be submitted for gov approval, all hidden under "confidential commercial information" redactions. One soil study removed, for unknown reasons? Hardly anything to get excited about. Try to find out how much of all this stuff is being shipped around on the tracks and highways in your neighborhood. Now that's a challenge. Took me 2 weeks to find the TC Keystone (not XL) Pipeline permit application. Basically I just got lucky. During Obama's administration, I could see the construction progress report photos and data. After Trunp got in, NOTHING.
--Einstein gave the same test to students every year. When asked why he would do something like that, "Because the answers had changed."
