Whistle-blowing organization reports negligence in dioxin testing in East Palestine
This article features Government Accountability Project Senior Environmental Officer, Lesley Pacey, and whistleblower client Stephen Petty and was originally published here.
Through a Freedom of Information Act, whistle-blowing organization Government Accountability Project obtained a letter it says exposes changes the EPA made to Norfolk Southern’s dioxin sampling plan.
“We’ve known that all along, Lesley Pacey from the Government Accountability Project is just helping us find the proof the now,” said Jami Wallace, founder of the Chemically Impacted Communities Coalition.
Wallace has been vocal since the train derailment in East Palestine February 3, 2023.
“We said that we wanted a transparent plan, and we wanted it to include certain things. Stephen Lester said what was wrong with the plan, nobody wanted to listen, nobody wanted to do anything about it,” Wallace added referring to the plan dioxin sampling plan put together by the U.S EPA and Norfolk Southern.
The Government Accountability Project states that the plan was updated by the EPA to allow Norfolk Southern to remove key chemical compounds from it. The plan had received backlash from other whistleblowers like Stephen Petty at the time, that the plan didn’t account for wind direction changes at the time of the controlled burn. The NTSB would later rule that the burn was not necessary.
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