Candidate for President and Medical Doctor Jill Stein spent a few hours in  Darlington, Pennsylvania, where she listened to results from some independent testing,  and listened to residents still suffering from the Norfolk Southern toxic train derailment that took place last February. 

 

"I'm here to hear from the community because what's happening here in East Palestine can happen anywhere, and this community is being subject to very toxic exposures and they deserve the support of our regulatory agencies to find out exactly what's happening," Presidential hopeful Jill Stein said.

 

She told the crowd even those not experiencing symptoms now, could find they too become like thier neighbors who are experiencing sytmptoms such as siezures, headaches, blurry vision and more as time typically reveales the health effects. 

 

"If you look at Love Canal or Times Beach, it usually took a decade or two and in the meantime people that are exposed and people get very sick and we know from these other communities," emphasized Stein. 

 

At Love Canal EPA officials repeatedly said everything was fine at the location where chemicals had been dumped.

 

Yet hundreds of residents ended up dying, and hundreds ended up sick. They developed seizures, eplipsy, asthma, migraines, and kidney disorders.

 

Dioxins were one of the major chemical compounds found at elevated levels at Love Canal. 

 

 Stein says the next president needs to put a stop to the revolving door of employees that once worked for a regulatory agency that now works for the industry.

 

She tells WFMJ the regulatory agencies like the EPA are supposed to work for us.

 

 

Scott Smith who has traveled from Boston 25 times to do independent testing, says the EPA, should use some of itls 12 Billion dollar budget to provide testing to anyone who lives or lived where the slow burn of vinyl chloride landed, along with wherever the toxic plume deposited toxins. 

 

"They should test the full spectrum. I have an expression you can't find what you don't look for and it's that simple. They need to look for everything that was on that train and every chemical created from the smouldering flame, and from explosion," said Scott Smith from Boston.