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No One in East Palestine Believes Anything the Biden PJ Media

My fiancé was so sick that I almost took him to the hospital, Jami Cozza, a lifelong East Palestinian, told the Post. Her 91-year-old grandmother tried to clean the chemical residue off her furnishings. She finally gave up and moved into a motel.

Wade Lovett s been having trouble breathing since the Feb. 3 disaster. He lost his job because his doctor still hasn t cleared him and the company he works for fired him.

Doctors say I definitely have the chemicals in me but there s no one in town who can run the toxicological tests to find out which ones they are, Lovett, 40, an auto detailer, said in an extremely high-pitched voice. My voice sounds like Mickey Mouse. My normal voice is low. It s hard to breathe, especially at night. My chest hurts so much at night I feel like I m drowning. I cough up phlegm a lot. I lost my job because the doctor won t release me to go to work.

At issue was the controlled burn from one rail car that had sprung a leak after the accident. The railroad was very careful to get all the proper signoffs from state and federal officials including Republican Governor Mike DeWine. But was it really necessary? Lawyers for the townspeople don t think so.

The company s decision was very suspicious, Rene Rocha of the Morgan & Morgan law firm and one of the lead attorneys on the class-action case told the Post. Norfolk Southern discharged more vinyl chloride into a small area in eastern Ohio in a day than the entire industries combined of America discharge in a year.

Residents are fearful of returning home, and why shouldn t they be? Contaminated soil and water were being removed from the town and dumped in Michigan and Texas. The only problem was that neither state was informed of the dumping.

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via pjmedia.com