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41:14Now PlayingStatus Coup’s Jordan Chariton interviews Lesley Pacey, senior environmental officer with the Government Accountability Project. They discuss BOMBSHELL government emails and documents that show government agencies, along with Norfolk Southern, hid a doomsday death scenario from the public: thousands could have died from lethal gas following the 2023 chemical detonation of five rail cars filled with toxic vinyl chloride over East Palestine, Ohio, and western Pennsylvania. The emails show the government allowed Norfolk Southern to UNNECESSARILY detonate the five rail cars despite expert warnings against it. They also show government bureaucrats openly discussing how relieved they were that their risk models didn’t go public. Three and a half years later, cancer is surging in East Palestine and western Pennsylvania, along with many other serious health issues.
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