https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/mexican-president-posts-photo-of-what-he-claims-is-an-elf-1.6289729

Mexican president posts photo of what he claims is an elf

Mexico's president posted a photo on his social media accounts Saturday showing what he said appeared to be a mythological woodland spirit similar to an elf. (Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador/Twitter)

Mexico's president posted a photo on his social media accounts Saturday showing what he said appeared to be a mythological woodland spirit similar to an elf.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador did not seem to be joking when he posted the photo of an "Aluxe," a mischievous woodland spirit in Mayan folklore.

Lopez Obrador wrote the photo "was taken three days ago by an engineer, it appears to be an aluxe," adding "everything is mystical."

The nighttime photo shows a tree with a branch forming what looks like a halo of hair, and what may be stars forming the figure's eyes.

Lopez Obrador has long expressed reverence for indigenous cultures and beliefs. Engineers and workers are in the Yucatan peninsula, constructing a tourist train that is the president's pet project.

According to traditional Mayan belief, "Aluxes" are small, mischievous creatures that inhabit forests and fields and are prone to playing tricks on people, like hiding things. Some people leave small offerings to appease them.

The ancient Mayan civilization reached its height from 300 A.D. to 900 A.D. on the Yucatan Peninsula and in adjacent parts of Central America, but the Mayas' descendants continue to live on the peninsula.

Many continue speaking the Mayan language and wearing traditional clothing, while also conserving traditional foods, crops, religion and medicine practices, despite the conquest of the region by the Spanish between 1527 and 1546.

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https://www.the-sun.com/news/7475230/putins-allies-threaten-nuke-yellowstone-supervolcano/

Putin’s allies bizarrely threaten to nuke Yellowstone Supervolcano with Satan-2 missile to ‘cause radioactive eruption’

VLADIMIR Putin’s allies have bizarrely threatened to use the Satan-2 nuclear missile to attack the Yellowstone supervolcano.

The attack - that could cause a radioactive eruption - was openly talked about on state-run TV and came as the Russian tyrant ordered testing of the 16,000 mph missile.

Putin is said to have warned Joe Biden of the test launch of the missile - officially known as the RS-28 Sarmat - in advance, while the US president was in Ukraine.

Speaking on a nightly panel discussion about the war hosted by Kremlin mouthpiece Vladimir Solovyov, one military expert talked about how the missiles could be used.

The expert, who was wearing a military uniform, said the “Sarmat is a special weapon” that can deliver “large number of nuclear warheads at once” to a target.

Then in a deranged threat, he continued: “It is impossible to build an all-looking defence system, which means that the United States is vulnerable, that is the first point.

“And the second point is that the Sarmat poses a threat to the most feared facility on US territory, the Yellowstone volcano.”

Lying underneath the tranquil setting of the Yellowstone National Park in the US lies an enormous magma chamber.

It's responsible for the geysers and hot springs that define the area.

But it's also one of the greatest natural threats to human civilisation as we know it - a potential supervolcano.

The thermal danger zone is a 50-mile-long chamber that is essentially a giant, lid-topped cauldron that is so vast that it can only truly be seen from space.

The mega volcano last blew 70,000 years ago, but it would kill an estimated 100,000 people in the surrounding areas and millions more over time if it erupted today.

Quite what the outcome of such a nuclear attack on it would be remains uncertain.

According to the BBC’s Science Focus, if a nuclear bomb was dropped into an active volcano or one just about to blow it would cause it to erupt a little sooner.

The nuke could also alter the course of the magma flow after the eruption.

Putin said earlier this week that Russia "will pay increased attention to strengthening the nuclear triad" - referring to nukes based on land, sea and in the air.

He was speaking on Defender of the Fatherland Day, a hangover from the days of the USSR which was formerly known as Red Army Day.

Putin also warned that the Sarmat would be deployed this year.

That prompted UN chief Antonio Guterres to warn him to "step back from the brink" of nuclear war.

"We have heard implicit threats to use nuclear weapons," he said.

"The so-called tactical use of nuclear weapons is utterly unacceptable. It is high time to step back from the brink."

He said the possible consequences of a "spiralling conflict" were a "clear and present danger".

"War is not the solution. War is the problem," he added.

With an operational range of up to 11,180 miles, the deadly Sarmat missile is reported to have no equivalent in the West in terms of the terror it could unleash.

There has only been one definitive test flight of a Satan-2 missile - which happened in April 2022.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers are said to be gearing up for Putin's new offensive, which will mark the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Ukrainians are bracing for the new assault that is set to include 1,800 tanks, 3,950 armoured vehicles, 400 fighter jets and 300 helicopters incoming from Russia.

Putin is also gathering 2,700 artillery guns and 810 rocket launchers for the "new wave of attacks", according to Foreign Policy.

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Yasmina

@yasminalombaert

Following Putin’s « manual » retired naval officer Konstantin Sivkov, discussed the possibility of Russia using a nuclear Sarmat missile to strike a volcano in Yellowstone what will cause massive volcanic eruptions and earthquakes to kill as many Americans as possible.

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Moderna Paid Fauci Lead Organization $400 Million in ‘Royalties’ on COVID-19 Vaccine Sales

A Covid vaccine maker that received clinical trial approvals from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), formerly headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, has just paid $400 million to the “public health” organization.

The “catch-up-payment” that Moderna recently paid the NIAID was reported by the industry watchdog group Fierce Pharma as well as by the New York Times.

“In Moderna’s earnings release Thursday, the company said it recently paid the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) a $400 million ‘catch-up payment’ under a new royalty-bearing license agreement between the parties,” Fierce Pharma noted.

“The payment is part of a license agreement between Moderna and NIAID inked late last year. With the deal, Moderna is paying the U.S. government to access ‘certain patent rights concerning stabilizing prefusion coronavirus spike proteins,'” the report added, citing Moderna Chief Financial Officer Jamie Mock.

Moderna agreed to pay NIAID “low single-digit royalties” on COVID-19 vaccine sales moving forward, Mock added.

As the report adds, “this agreement does not put Moderna out of the woods on the patent litigation front. Even after this deal, the vaccine maker is fighting with the U.S. National Institutes of Health over the origins of the core technology in the vaccine,” The New York Times points out.

“The N.I.H. said its scientists, some of whom had been collaborating for years with Moderna, had helped to design that sequence. Moderna also received nearly $10 billion in taxpayer funding to develop and test the vaccine, and to provide doses to the federal government,” the Times reported. “The company has sold roughly $36 billion worth of coronavirus vaccines worldwide.”

“But even as the fight over the sequence attracted public attention, including suggestions from the N.I.H. that it might consider legal action, another standoff played out largely in private, this one concerning the chemical tweak that was the subject of the payments announced on Thursday,” the report added.

“That technique was integral to a number of coronavirus vaccines, including Moderna’s, scientists said,” the Times continued. “It entailed changing the mRNA code within the vaccines so that they would help people generate an immune response to the version of spike proteins present on the surface of the coronavirus before they fused with human cells.”

Moderna is also “facing patent suits from mRNA rivals Pfizer and BioNTech, plus a separate case from Arbutus and Roivant’s Genevant Sciences.” A case between Pfizer and Moderna is heading to trial in London next April, Reuters reported last week.

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https://investors.modernatx.com/news/news-details/2023/Moderna-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Fiscal-Year-2022-Financial-Results-and-Provides-Business-Updates/default.aspx

MODERNA REPORTS FOURTH QUARTER AND FISCAL YEAR 2022 FINANCIAL RESULTS AND PROVIDES BUSINESS UPDATES

FEBRUARY, 23, 2023

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Fourth quarter 2022 revenues of $5.1 billion; GAAP net income of $1.5 billion and GAAP diluted EPS of $3.61

Full-year 2022 revenues of $19.3 billion; GAAP net income of $8.4 billion and GAAP diluted EPS of $20.12

Company reiterating approximately $5 billion in COVID-19 sales contracted for delivery in 2023 and expecting additional sales from key markets

Company will file for regulatory approval for mRNA-1345, Moderna's investigational RSV vaccine for older adults, in the first half of 2023. mRNA-1345 was recently granted FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation

mRNA-1010 Phase 3 flu vaccine interim efficacy analysis expected to be reviewed by an independent DSMB before the end of the first quarter

mRNA-4157, Moderna's investigational personalized cancer vaccine in combination with Keytruda®, was granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation; full data set to be shared at upcoming medical oncology meeting and in peer reviewed publication

Company R&D investments planned to increase to $4.5 billion in 2023

CAMBRIDGE, MA / ACCESSWIRE / February 23, 2023 / Moderna, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, today reported financial results and provided business updates for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2022.

"2022 was another impressive year for Moderna, with over $19 billion in revenue and significant clinical breakthroughs across our portfolio. We continue to provide our Omicron-targeting bivalent vaccines worldwide, with the latest real-world evidence highlighting the continued protection of our vaccines against hospitalization and death," said Stéphane Bancel, Chief Executive Officer of Moderna. "Our infectious disease platform continues to progress with positive Phase 3 data in RSV for older adults. We are investing to scale Phase 3 manufacturing for personalized cancer vaccines so that we can run several Phase 3 studies simultaneously. With planned R&D investments of $4.5 billion for the year, I am excited about the new medicines we believe we will bring to patients in the coming few years."

Moderna is also announcing that Juan Andres, currently President, Strategic Partnerships and Enterprise Expansion, will be retiring from the Company in May after more than six years.

"Juan has played a tremendous role since joining Moderna in 2017. Juan served as Chief Technical Operations and Quality Officer and led our manufacturing from an early-stage clinical development company to a commercial company. In 2020 and 2021, Juan did a historic job with his team to scale Moderna for a global commercial launch, during a pandemic. It is unbelievable that he led the team from having made less than 100,000 doses across our entire portfolio in 2019 to more than 800 million doses in 2021 of our COVID-19 vaccine globally, all during a pandemic," said Mr. Bancel. "Very few manufacturing leaders could have led such an achievement during such a challenging time. We, and the hundreds of millions of people across the globe who received the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, owe Juan our gratitude."

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Human 6G Antennas? ‘One of the Worst Ideas Ever,’ Critic Says

Authors of a new study say human beings wearing special copper-coiled bracelets could be used as part of an electromagnetic radiation antenna system to power 6G. Critics say the technology could be harmful to your health.

Human beings could be used as part of an electromagnetic radiation (EMR) antenna system by wearing a special copper-coiled bracelet, according to a team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.

The researchers said they developed a low-cost way to “harvest” the radiofrequency (RF) radiation that gets “leaked” during visible light communication (VLC) — a technology they said is likely to be used in the “coming 6G networks.”

But some critics allege that using human beings as RF antennas for 6G is disrespectful to the human body and may have unknown health implications.

“I am diametrically opposed to this type of work, especially given the paucity of medical research on using the human body as an RF antenna,” said Brian Hooker, Ph.D., P.E., Children’s Health Defense (CHD) chief scientific officer and professor of biology at Simpson University.

“This type of technology makes the human body an RF collector and ignores the health implications of EMR altogether,” Hooker told The Defender.

‘LiFi’ can ‘enable new pervasive wireless systems’ for Internet of Things

The researchers — including Jie Xiong, Ph.D., an associate professor of information and computer sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Qing Wang, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Embedded Systems Group in the Department of Software Technology at TU Delft, The Netherlands — are proponents of VLC, or “LiFi” as it is sometimes called, which uses light to transmit data.

VLC works by turning LED lights on and off at a very high speed invisible to the human eye.

Like WiFi, VLC is wireless — but instead of using a router and RF waves to transmit data, VLC uses LED bulbs and light signals to send and receive information.

According to OpenVLC, a research platform co-founded by Wang, VCL can “enable new pervasive wireless systems in the context of the Internet of Things.”

During VLC, RF radiation is “leaked” into the ambient environment, allowing it to be “harvested” and used to power small devices, the researchers said.

The team designed an electrical system called “Bracelet+” whereby a human wearing a bracelet containing a copper coil could “collect” the RF radiation generated during VLC.

The researchers said they were able to harvest microwatts of power using their copper-coiled bracelet system in tested scenarios.

“Such a micro-watt level of harvested energy has the potential to power up ultra-low-power sensors such as temperature sensors and glucose sensors,” they said.

The team did not specify in their design how the harvested radiation would be relayed to devices.

Two bracelets harvest more RF than one

The team said they were able to harvest more RF radiation when an individual wore two bracelets, one on each arm.

Increasing the number of bracelets would not increase the wearer’s exposure to RF, according to Minhao Cui — a Ph.D. student of information and computer sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who worked with Xiong on the project.

“The Bracelet only ‘extracts’ [RF] energy from the human body, which is already captured by the human body,” he said, “so no matter how many bracelets we wear, [it] will not influence people’s exposure to RF.”

The team said wearing the bracelet “does not cause any health issues” because the maximum amount of RF radiation from VLC is “around 0.01 microwatts per squared centimeter (mW/cm2)” — which is “far below” the RF limits specified by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

FCC guidelines set the limit for human exposure to RF at 0.2 mW/cm2 and FDA specifies an upper limit of 10 mW/cm2, they said.

‘One of the worst ideas ever’

However, Bill Bathgate, an electrical engineer and certified building biology environmental consultant, said it wasn’t feasible to think that wearing the bracelets would not increase people’s exposure to RF. “That’s not possible,” he said.

Commenting on the study, Bathgate said, “This is one of the worst ideas ever.” It uses the human body as a “telecommunications point in some kind of network grid” and could result in “health effects we can’t predict,” he said.

Bathgate criticized the researchers for using FCC and FDA regulations as a measure of health impacts. “These are the two of the most corrupt organizations I’ve ever met in this field of electrical engineering,” he said.

“The FCC is not a health agency,” Bathgate said, “The FDA is — but it doesn’t know anything about RF.”

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Bathgate pointed out that in 2021, CHD sued the FCC successfully for being unable to explain why its current guidelines adequately protect against the harmful effects of exposure to RF radiation.

The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled the FCC failed to consider the non-cancer evidence regarding adverse health effects of wireless technology in its decision to not update its 1996 guidelines.

Bathgate said he would have liked to see the study authors provide evidence to support their claim that the leaked RF radiation from VLC does not cause health issues. “What measurements have been done to validate that statement?” he asked.

“You have to be careful … people throw this stuff out there without even thinking about the potential ramifications of it,” he said, adding that prior research has indicated clear interactions between EMR exposure — including RF — and health problems.

Thousands of peer-reviewed studies have shown non-thermal biological effects — meaning effects from low-level radiation that does not cause heat — at the cellular level including oxidative stress, DNA damage, sperm damage, neurological effects, cognitive impairment and electrosensitivity.

Nonetheless, Cui said he didn’t think VLC has an impact on people’s health. “The energy of leaked RF signals from the VLC is largely below that of Wi-Fi signals already in the environment,” he added.

‘Making the human body the ground plane for 6G communications’

Bathgate broke down the science behind why the study authors would want to use the human body to collect the RF generated by VLC.

In VLC, when LED bulbs oscillate at a very high frequency it allows signals to be sent at very low power. These signals get transferred to the human body, Bathgate said, making the body an “amplifying antenna” for the signals.

“Basically, what we’re talking about here is making the human body the ground plane for 6G communications,” he added.

“If you drive by a TV tower or radio tower, you see this big thing going up in the air. Underneath that tower — which you can’t see — is a very large copper sheet the size of a parking lot.”

That’s the ground plane for the antenna, he said. “The antenna on its own will not radiate unless it has a counterpoise — or a ground plane — to reflect the information from.”

Bathgate said that human beings are very effective as being a ground plane because they are “saltwater beings.”

For example, he said, if he wanted to get a really strong signal using a ham radio, he would go to a saltwater beach and “literally stick” the antenna in the sand where the saltwater is.

The saltwater would amplify the signals “very quickly and very effectively,” he said, by making the ocean — “half the earth” — the ground plane. “It will make my antenna a lot more effective than if I were to be a hundred yards inland,” he said.

Indeed, the study authors tested various objects to ascertain which ones functioned most effectively to amplify the RF radiation produced during VLC and found that the human body was the best “object” for collecting the RF radiation.

They first put a copper coil on objects — made of plastic, cardboard, wood and steel — but found metal to be the most effective. Then, they tested objects “ubiquitous” in daily life including walls, electronic devices (such as a smartphone and laptop) and the human body.

They concluded that the human body — with its many watery tissues — was more effective at amplifying the harvestable RF radiation than electronic devices or walls.

The study authors did not discuss what amount of RF radiation might be expected to occur in individuals exposed to VLC who wear copper jewelry similar to their copper-coiled bracelet or in women who use a copper intrauterine device as a form of long-term birth control.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11794177/Environmental-Protection-Agency-orders-pause-cleanup-toxic-waste-East-Palestine.html

EPA orders Norfolk Southern to PAUSE cleanup of East Palestine toxic train derailment, despite '102,000 gallons of liquid waste and 4,500 cubic yards of solid waste' still on site

Federal environmental authorities have ordered a temporary halt in the shipment of contaminated waste from the site of a fiery train derailment earlier this month in eastern Ohio near the Pennsylvania state line.

Region 5 administrator Debra Shore of the Environmental Protection Agency said Saturday the agency ordered Norfolk Southern to 'pause' shipments from the site of the February 3 derailment in East Palestine but vowed that removal of the material would resume 'very soon.'

'Everyone wants this contamination gone from the community. They don't want the worry, and they don't want the smell, and we owe it to the people of East Palestine to move it out of the community as quickly as possible,' Shore said.

Until Friday, Shore said, the rail company had been solely responsible for the disposal of the waste and supplied Ohio environmental officials with a list of selected and utilized disposal sites.

Federal environmental authorities have ordered a halt in the shipment of contaminated waste from the site of a fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio near the Pennsylvania state line

Region 5 administrator Debra Shore of the Environmental Protection Agency said Saturday the agency ordered Norfolk Southern to 'pause' shipments from the site of the February 3 derailment in East Palestine but vowed that removal of the material would resume 'very soon'

Going forward, disposal plans including locations and transportation routes for contaminated waste will be subject to EPA review and approval, she said.

'EPA will ensure that all waste is disposed of in a safe and lawful manner at EPA-certified facilities to prevent further release of hazardous substances and impacts to communities,' Shore said.

She said officials had heard concerns from residents and others in a number of states and were reviewing 'the transport of some of this waste over long distances and finding the appropriate permitted and certified sites to take the waste.'

The Ohio governor's office said Saturday night that of the twenty truckloads (approximately 280 tons) of hazardous solid waste hauled away, 15 truckloads of contaminated soil was disposed of at a Michigan hazardous waste treatment and disposal facility while five truckloads had been returned to East Palestine.

Liquid waste already trucked out of East Palestine would be disposed of at a licensed hazardous waste treatment and disposal facility in Texas, but that facility would not accept more liquid waste, the Ohio governor's office said.

'Currently, about 102,000 gallons of liquid waste and 4,500 cubic yards of solid waste remain in storage on site in East Palestine, not including the five truckloads returned to the village,' the governor's office said. 'Additional solid and liquid wastes are being generated as the cleanup progresses.'

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No one was injured when 38 Norfolk Southern cars derailed in a fiery, mangled mess on the outskirts of town, but as fears grew about a potential explosion due to hazardous chemicals in five of the rail cars, officials evacuated the area.

They later opted to release and burn toxic vinyl chloride from the tanker cars, sending flames and black smoke billowing into the sky again.

Shore said the EPA was not involved in the decision to do the controlled burn, but she called it a 'well-founded' decision by local and state officials based on the information they had at the time 'to deal with a highly explosive toxic chemical.'

Federal and state officials have repeatedly said it's safe for evacuated residents to return to the area and that air testing in the town and inside hundreds of homes hasn't detected any concerning levels of contaminants from the fires or burned chemicals. The state says the local municipal drinking water system is safe, and bottled water is available while testing is conducted for those with private wells.

Despite those assurances and a bevy of news conferences and visits from politicians, many residents still express a sense of mistrust or have lingering questions about what they have been exposed to and how it will impact the future of their families and their communities.

On Friday, President Joe Biden directed federal agencies to go door-to-door in East Palestine, Ohio, to check on families affected by the toxic train derailment.

President Joe Biden was at a loss for words when explaining to reporters why he has yet to visit East Palestine, Ohio, three weeks after the toxic train derailment

The Biden administration has been accused of being apathetic to the plight of the small Ohio community, where residents are reporting worrying symptoms

Under Biden’s order, teams from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Environmental Protection Agency and Federal Emergency Management Agency will visit homes.

Workers will ask how residents are doing, see what they need and connect them with appropriate resources from government and nonprofit organizations, the White House said.

The 'walk teams' are modeled on similar teams following hurricanes and other natural disasters.

Biden directed employees to get to as many homes as possible by Monday. Officials said the immediate goal was to visit at least 400. The president said he currently has no plans to personally visit Ohio.

Biden on Friday rejected the notion that his administration hasn’t been present in providing assistance in a bizarre exchange as he left the White House to spend the weekend at his Delaware home.

'We were there two hours after the train went down. Two hours,' Biden said at the White House. 'I’ve spoken with every single major figure in both Pennsylvania and in Ohio. And so the idea that we’re not engaged is simply not there.'

But Democrats - including blundering Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg - have been accused of initially playing the disaster down. They were embarrassed into taking it more seriously after a well-publicized visit to the site by former President Donald Trump earlier this week.

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A timeline given out by the White House Friday said DOT provided 'initial incident notification' to members of the Ohio congressional delegation and relevant committees on Saturday, Feb. 4, less than a day after the derailment.

That same day, EPA deployed real-time air monitoring instruments in 12 locations surrounding the wreck site and in the neighboring community, the White House said.

Meanwhile, the controversy spread far beyond the little Ohio town. Officials in Texas and Michigan expressed concern about contaminated wastewater and soil being transported to their states for disposal.

Biden’s order came as House Republicans opened an investigation into the Feb. 3 derailment, blaming Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for what they contend was a delayed response to the fiery wreck.

The focus on DOT came even though the EPA took charge of the federal response this week and ordered Norfolk Southern railway to pay for the cleanup and chemical release.

Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, became the latest lawmaker to jump into what has become a political proxy war as each party lays into the other after the derailment and chemical leak that led to evacuation of the small Ohio community.

'Despite the U.S. Department of Transportation’s responsibility to ensure safe and reliable transport in the United States, you ignored the catastrophe for over a week,' the Kentucky Republican said in a letter to Buttigieg.

'The American people deserve answers as to what caused the derailment, and DOT needs to provide an explanation for its leadership’s apathy in the face of this emergency,' the letter went on.

Buttigieg (center) arrived the day after Trump, three weeks into the ongoing crisis. He told reporters he was mulling his decision to wait that long

Residents in East Palestine have reported going to the hospital over rashes following the spill

Meanwhile, Buttigieg has hit back at Ex-president Donald Trump who visited the site this week.

Buttigieg told reporters that if the former president — and current Republican presidential candidate — felt strongly about increased rail safety efforts, 'one thing he could do is express support for reversing the deregulation that happened on his watch.'

On Friday, Buttigieg chided Comer for referring in his letter to 'DOT’s National Transportation Safety Board,' saying he was 'alarmed to learn' the committee chairman' thinks that the NTSB is part of our Department.

NTSB is independent (and with good reason). Still, of course, we will fully review this and respond appropriately.”

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre excoriated 'political stunts that we’re seeing from the other side.'

A preliminary report released Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board stated that the crew operating the Norfolk Southern freight train didn’t get much warning before dozens of cars went off the tracks and there is no indication that crew members did anything wrong.

Republicans are framing the incident as a moral failing at the hands of the Biden administration, noting Buttigieg’s failure to visit the site until nearly three weeks after the wreck.

Democrats point to rollbacks former President Donald Trump made during his term that weakened rail and environmental regulations. EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited the site last week and again on Tuesday.

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The dangerous chemicals released in the East Palestine train derailment

A train carrying a wide-variety of toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio on February 3.

Some of those chemicals have since been released into the air or soil, as residents worry about the long-term health effects.

Among the chemicals released from the derailment are:

Vinyl chloride — train operator Norfolk Southern has said that 10 cars were burning vinyl chloride, a known carcinogen. It is a highly-volatile colorless gas used to create polyvinyl chloride, a plastic used in piping, cables, bottles and credit cards.

Symptoms of vinyl chloride exposure include drowsiness, headaches and dizziness. More long-term effects may include cancer and liver damage.

Hydrogen chloride — In trying to mitigate the effects of vinyl chloride, officials conducted a controlled explosion of the train cars, releasing hydrogen chloride.

The chemical is irritating and corrosive to any tissue it gets in contact with, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns.

Brief exposure can cause throat irritation, but exposure at higher levels can result in rapid breathing, narrowing of the bronchioles, blue coloring of the skin, accumulation of fluid in the lungs and even death.

Phosgene — a chemical that was also released in the controlled explosion.

Like hydrogen chloride, phosgene is an irritant to the skin, eyes and respiratory tract.

Common initial symptoms include mild irritation of the eyes and throat, with some coughing, choking, nausea, occasional vomiting, headache and a feeling of tightness in the chest.

Phosgene poisoning may also cause respiratory and cardiovascular failure, low blood pressure and an accumulation of fluid in the lungs.

Ethylhexyl acrylate — a chemical that was carried on the train

It is a known carcinogen that can cause burning and irritation of the skin and eyes. Inhalation of the substance can also irritate the nose and throat, causing shortness of breath and coughing.

Isobutylene was also being transported on the train.

Inhalation of isobutylene can cause dizziness and drowsiness

Ethylene glycol monobutyl was another substance being transported to Pennsylvania.

It can cause irritation in the eyes, skin, nose and throat, as well as hematuria (or blood in the urine), nervous system depression, headache and vomiting.

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Dr. Jennifer Francis

@JFrancisClimate

It's not every day you see the subtropical jet stream dip almost down to the equator! 😬

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Notice how the Catholic church has myriad 'mysteries'?