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I have been closely following the ecological disaster in East Palestine ohio. Below is some additional information that may be useful to people that are living in near by areas.
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[Rail Workers did everything in their power to warn everyone of the impending disaster that was enabled by greed. Hedge funds, wall-street, CEOs, Congress and Multiple government agencies failed to protect people from the Pale](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnewsvideo/comments/1104slr/rail_workers_did_everything_in_their_power_to/)
[Tetra Tech is the company hired by the EPA to conduct tests in Palestine Ohio. They also developed the (AI) systems that were meant to warn rail workers of possible failures. In California they reached a $6.3 million class action settlement in California for faking tests soil test.](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnewsvideo/comments/110nt0n/comment/j89z0nz/?context=3)
[We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get the railroad open: Silverado Caggano](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnewsvideo/comments/1110sjp/we_basically_nuked_a_town_with_chemicals_so_we/)
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SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal judge signaled Thursday he will likely reject a U.S. Navy contractor’s bid to scuttle a multimillion-dollar settlement between developers and buyers of more than 340 homes on the site of radioactivity cleanup fraud at a former shipyard.
U.S. Navy contractor Tetra Tech opposes the homebuilders’ request to find that a $6.3 million settlement fully resolves claims that developers failed to warn home buyers about revelations surrounding the $1 billion cleanup of the Hunters Point shipyard, the site of one of the largest redevelopment projects in San Francisco history.
The dispute stems from accusations that Navy contractor Tetra Tech EC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tetra Tech Inc., ordered workers to destroy post-cleanup soil samples that “had some of the highest radioactive readings” and replace them with samples from other areas of the site while avoiding “radioactive hot spots.”
The former Navy shipyard in the city’s Bayview neighborhood was home to radiation experiments from 1946 to 1969 and a place where ships returning from hydrogen bomb tests were decontaminated, both potential sources of radioactive waste.
Lennar Corporation, Five Point Holdings and their affiliated companies agreed in August 2020 to pay $6.3 million to settle a class action brought by current and former owners of 347 new homes in an area known as Parcel A in the former Hunters Point shipyard. Tetra Tech remains a defendant in that class action and has not agreed to settle.
During a hearing on a motion for final settlement approval Thursday, a Tetra Tech lawyer argued the settlement is patently unfair because it leaves his client on the hook for a larger share of the total liability, which could reach up to $48 million.
Tetra Tech argues the homebuilders are the primary wrongdoers in the case because they had a duty to inform homebuyers about allegations of cleanup misconduct that could affect the value of their investments.
The homes lost up to hundreds of thousands of dollars in value, according to the homebuyers’ lawsuit, after two former Tetra Tech supervisors’ plea agreements were unsealed in May 2018. The Tetra Tech workers admitted to fudging soil samples to hide potential radioactivity on part of a 400-acre site where more than 10,000 homes are slated to be built.
Tetra Tech claims the developers should be responsible for a larger share of liability because they knew about problems with the site before the plea agreements were made public in 2018.
“There is evidence that the homebuilders knew,” Tetra Tech lawyer Chris Rheinheimer said in court Thursday.
A 2014 report that was provided to the developers should have put them on notice about how the cleanup was handled because in that report Tetra Tech recommended redoing samples and soil testing in response to allegations of misconduct, Rheinheimer said.
Representing Lennar and the homebuilder defendants, attorney Geoffrey Yost argued that report suggested the site was still safe because Tetra Tech vowed to take corrective actions to ensure the area was free of radioactive contamination.
U.S. District Judge James Donato suggested the 2014 document was not sufficient to put the homebuilders on notice about serious problems with the cleanup project.
“It was not confessing danger or error,” Donato said. “Quite the opposite. It was trying to assure the world.”
The unsealing of guilty pleas provided more concrete evidence of impropriety in the cleanup process, Donato said. After those documents were made public, the homebuilders disclosed the information to homebuyers.
“To me there’s no doubt the homebuilders did the right thing at that point,” Donato said.
Anne Marie Murphy, an attorney representing homebuyers, said her clients support the deal. No homebuyers asked to opt out of the settlement, she told the judge.
“This settlement is getting money into the hands of homeowners,” Murphy said. “We can see that this could take several more years so this is a settlement that is supported by the homeowners. The lack of opts-outs and objections is an indication that it’s fair.”
Donato indicated he will likely endorse the $6.3 million deal, but he vowed to give it some more thought.
“I’m leaning toward approval, but I’ll think a little more and get this out when I can,” Donato said.
Seven whistleblowers have accused Tetra Tech of falsifying soil tests that were supposed to verify the decontamination of part of the 400-acre site where the more than 10,000 homes are slated to be built.
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**Tetra Tech Rail AI**
Our RailAI® boxcar-based systems are currently operating in revenue service and inspect 24/7 for a month or more with on-board artificial intelligence (AI) processing for real-time notification of defects.
Our RailAI system produces significantly more and higher value data than any other available system, providing five times the functionality at one-fifth the cost per mile of other systems. Combining multiple sensor systems on one track-speed platform eliminates the need for hi-rail and manned test vehicles, negates track occupancy concerns, and reduces risk to on-track workers. Available for lease or sale, the RailAI system provides image data for Tetra Tech to provide technical consulting services, customizing the AI system to achieve customer-defined track assessment goals. Tetra Tech additionally offers full system maintenance plans or will build a plan with the customer to share maintenance responsibilities.
The RailAI system has its roots in the radar and laser highway and runway inspection systems that Tetra Tech developed in the 1990s.
Building on that technology and processing expertise, Tetra Tech began developing autonomous railroad track inspection systems in 2015. Our work rapidly progressed from a manned test car to an unmanned boxcar in 2017, and finally, to a fully autonomous production model in 2019.
The air quality is safe to return but for some reason all of these government workers are in full hazmat 🤔
Excuse me, but “street sweepers”? They’re acting as if this is about cleaning up a bit of sawdust on the side of the road.
TLDR: Q: What about livestock and ponds? A: Don’t know. Call the EPA.
Dude seriously?
why would lebron do this ?
Oh god, people are gonna be begging to put chemicals on trucks now so we can have 50 times more spills, but there won’t be any really big ones.
If you think poisoned ground water is perfectly safe because you have isolated water sources, you are a fool. It will indirectly affect you through the plants and animals that live off that poisoned water.
They ruined any reason I had to check out Ohio, as far as I’m concerned it’s now a place where the air is carcinogenic, the water is poisoned and the natural beauty is facade. I’m not going there and neither are my loved ones. I’m sorry Ohio, they did you dirty.
Is there any tl;dr?
So this was (left to right) the East Palestine mayor, East Palestine fire chief, and county EMA Director.
East Palestine itself is home to about 5000, the county about 100,000. Just to give context to the nature of who these officials are.
:destroys everything in his way to get to the chair: KOOL AID! I mean… sorry, was I supposed to be concerned with regulating something?
Boebert is asking where the Secretary of Transportation is at, but where is the governor? Wtf is he doing to mitigate this? It’s his fucking state and he happens to be a Republican. He’s the one who likely gave the ok to burn this gas.
This is some USSR level lying going on from the governing bodies.
why are people so fat
Chernobyl levels of downplaying holy shit…
Holy shit they’re breaking out the streetsweepers?!
*Shit man, that’s all you had to say!*
This piece of land is gone for the next decade or so if not way more, I don’t know who is the best expert on this? You decide of the quality of this public message. Who is speaking and who is listening.
Will the shareholders still be okay?
Will they still get a return on investment?
Washing streets and cleaning schools is all well and good,
Whos paying?
The government better bail out the railways pronto.
next quarters coming up fast. /S
What a horrible situation. I hope all involved in this catastrophe are held legally and financially accountable for poisoning the people, animals, soil, water, and air in that area. Truly saddening…
Currently have a dead bird on my porch that no animal has touched and im in akron. hmmmmm
if i said what i thought should happen to those rail company bosses my comment would get moderated
That entire town is going to be a superfund site
What I got: I/we have no fucking idea what’s happening and what health impacts this will have on you in long term.