This really bugs me

[Randalls]

Toxic waste from train spill going to Roachdale.
Company operating toxic dump has had violations before. Our Indiana Governor protests as first wave has already shipped.
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/envi...952976007/

[pdq]

I mentioned in another thread, companies are in this business to make money. Why wouldn’t they take toxic waste from the derailment?

I completely understand what you’re saying, but if they’re taking this stuff, they probably have taken plenty of other nasty stuff too.

[gabester]

When you allow entities to operate for profit on a market with incomplete - or nonexistent - costs for externalities like pollution, innocent people are going to suffer.

The laissez faire capitalists say the market will correct this. The part they leave out is that the market correction happens by way of the people exposed to toxic waste.

As a civilization we ought to all be carefully examining all the materials we use, especially the things we dispose of constantly, and evaluating whether it is worth the simplicity this brings versus the increasingly difficult to hide costs of pollution and especially toxic waste.

[cbelt3]

Root cause is the privatization of environmental controls, inspection, AND gutting of all safety rules by every single Republican administration since the Clean Water Act.

Republicans: "These rules cost jobs, and cost us money ! Get rid of them ! "

Also Republicans: "Those deaths / injuries / damage are the Democrat's fault !"

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Texas passed a law that residents didn't have the right to know what toxic chemicals that facilities have. Is Indiana the same way?

Pretty much the only reason chemicals are moved like this, is that someone is going to make money by skimping on safety or pollution regulations. I am pretty sure that goes for why the Vinyl Chloride was being shipped in the first place (and it is why the train accident happened).

[bfd]

Pay Elon whatever it costs to blast the toxic crap into outer space …

[Randalls]

When the Republican Governor is not informed about a situation and wants info we get crickets from the super majority. They weren’t too happy when Holcomb was the voice of reason during the pandemic so they never actually supported him. Indiana is little Texas without the whack job Governor

[Randalls]

Yes I agree, if money can be made there is no voice of reason. We are just waiting for our own home generated catastrophe. But it’s nice to take care of everyone else’s toxic waste. Somebody has to do it so it might as well be us Hoosier hicks

[Don C]

Several decades ago, the Kentucky Center for the Arts was built on a site that had a LOT of chemical contamination. The dirt was loaded into trucks and was supposed to go to a landfill in Indiana that was licensed to handle the stuff. Instead the trucks stopped at a landfill that was just across the Ohio River making a much shorter trip (allowing more trips for the drivers). Of course THAT landfill was not authorized to receive the stuff.

Word finally got out (an intrepid reported followed the trucks) and the illegal dumping stopped and the dirt was eventually moved to the correct facility. I don't remember if anyone went to jail or was fined.

That illegal site is now slated to become part of Origin Park, a large urban park along the banks of the Ohio River. That particular landfill will become Buffalo Trace Lawn with the soil as undisturbed as a park can be.