These People Aren't Who You Think They Are

The Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health sounds like a government agency but it's not. It's a private firm that companies hire to say everything is safe after they commit an environmental disaster. The problem is if the company that did the polluting is paying them, can they really be trusted?

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But you did a piece on it and I was really surprised to find this. I always assumed that if the EPA, whether it's the state EPA or the federal EPA, comes in and says the air is good that they took the tests. but it appears that's not the case. and at least in East Palestine. they've done some of the testing, right? The EPA. But Norfolk Southern which is the company that the rail company where this derailment happened was their train they have contracted with a company called the Center for Toxicology and environmental health. Which certainly sounds like a government agency right? like if you were told the Center for Toxicology and environmental health is coming to your house to test the air you would think oh well this must be somebody in government as must be some state agency or federal agency. No, it's a private for-profit company that follows along companies like Norfolk Southern get contracted to do this work and invariably their estimates line up with what the corporation is saying. Which is usually that there is no problem with the air or water or soil in this particular area. The city has been working since they were established in 1997. They were at 9-11. they were after Katrina at some of the oil spills there. They were at the Deepwater Horizon BP Scandal. When coal ash was pushed into the communities in Tennessee. When there was a chemical explosion in Houston in 2019. In virtually every major environmental disaster of the last 20 years, this random company shows up and says everything's okay. Everything's fine. And they're paid for by the company to do that. Yes well that was the point I wanted to get to right it's not like they just show up they're as you say a government agency that's required to do this. they're contracted by these companies. so right the incentive for yeah the incentive is to underreport because the company is now liable for whatever the damages are. right and usually these toxicology reports not only are meant to reassure residents they're meant to try to persuade them not to sue. Because they say well look we have this information it says it's safe they are used as expert Witnesses in court cases. saying we did the tests and everything was fine. There was a situation that I brought up with another train derailment with a company called CSX, which was the rail company there in 2012 in Kentucky. And Cth was brought on-site during the cleanup phase and they said the ground is fine it's okay for you to do whatever you want and go ahead and clean up the wreck. And two workers started using a torch to cut around a piece of the wreckage immediately the soil was flammable and that all blew up. And it settled for 18.5 million dollars. Because these two individuals had severe burns and severe injuries to themselves.