The recent train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio caused intense health and environmental concerns thanks to the massive leaking of toxic chemicals. But, yet, the Biden administration’s Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is nowhere to be seen. AND, as Glenn details in this clip, FEMA just denied assistance to the Ohio town as well. But since when has FEMA turned down the chance to take control of a town, Glenn asks. In this clip, Glenn explains why he believes the left are ABANDONING Ohio: ‘It’s ALL A SHAM.’

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GLENN: All right. So, Stu, help me make sense of this story.

STU: Uh-huh

GLENN: Republican governor Mike dewine said, he's not seen secretary of transportation Pete Buttigieg, at all.

At all. Now, I'm sure he's seen him on TV. I'm not talking about Ohio. I'm sure he's seen him, you know, at some point, at his life, maybe.

But since the train derailment, nothing.

STU: I mean, he probably saw him on TV, talking about how there weren't enough black people in construction jobs. He saw that. That's an important thing to talk about.

GLENN: Liar. What a liar!

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: Anyway, and then yesterday, the Biden -- I read this verbatim. The Biden administration has turned down Republican Ohio governor Mike HEP Dewine's request for federal disaster assistance, for the train derailment.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, otherwise known as FEMA. Have you ever heard of them?

STU: I have heard of them, yeah. Too many white people working there too.

They say that Ohio is not eligible to receive assistance. Because the incident didn't classify as a natural -- as a national disaster. The rejection came nearly two weeks after the Norfolk Southern train. Which carried harmful chemicals derailed. 2,000 residents were evacuated.

Blah, blah, blah.

FEMA classifies a national disaster declaration as when there is property damage caused by a tornado, flood, hurricane, or earthquake.

The state currently does not have any associated costs that could demonstrate to FEMA to be able to get a disaster declaration.

Bras the train cars didn't cause any power outages, block any roads, or impede resident's property.

That's a quote from FEMA.

STU: Didn't impede resident's property. I mean, they had to evacuate. They are just saying, everything is fine. Right. That's their claim.

GLENN: You can go back there. You can go back.

STU: Just check it out.

GLENN: Just check it out. We're not saying. Do you get your vax. If you got your vax.

STU: Did the vaccine work for this too? For train derailments?

GLENN: I don't know that. But I just don't want them to go back, if they haven't had their vaccine, you know what I mean? But if you've had your vaccine, go back in. You're fine. You're good.

The federal government has nothing to do with your puny, little life there. What?

Train, big toxic clouds.

STU: Is it just -- are they trying to say, it's just not FEMA's purview. I mean, if we had a chemical fire somewhere.

GLENN: Tell me the time that FEMA has not champed at the bit, to come into your community to take over.

STU: Right.

GLENN: I can't think of one.

STU: But their lying there, seems to be, it's not a natural disaster. And we only deal with natural disasters.

Is there another government agency? Another alphabet collection of letters that's supposed to come in and deal with chemical accidents? The EPA?

GLENN: Well, the EPA is there.

STU: Are they helping the people?

GLENN: What they're trying.

Oh, yes, they are. They're saying, come on back in. Everything is fine.

Come into the water. Just, take a net, scoop all those dead fish, off of the surface of the water. They died from something else, I'm sure.

STU: Right. Some of them seem to sprout wings and fly off of your property. Just scoop them up. They're dead now.

GLENN: And if you don't scoop them up, they'll grow feet.

STU: You don't want the fish feet. No, fish feet around your property will lower property values. Your Zillow thing is going to go through the floor.

GLENN: Now, let me give you this story from the New York Times.

By the way, I'm leading someplace, and it's -- it's a happy place.

STU: Is it fish feet? Does this all come back to fish feet?

GLENN: Well, so here's the headline from the New York Times. Now, listen to this story. Chernobyl 2.0. Ohio train derailment spurs wild speculation. So this story is about the conspiracy theories, that are coming from --

STU: Conservatives.

GLENN: Yeah. Conservatives. Yes.

STU: So wait a minute. We finally found an ecological issue that the New York Times is downplaying?

GLENN: Yes. Yes.

STU: There finally is one? Every time there is an oil spill of like three drops, they all -- they send like 12 reporters from the scene, and any bird that has any oil on their feathers. There is a snowstorm, and it is because of your hair spray.

All right. Since a train carrying hazardous materials derailed in Ohio, nearly two weeks ago, writes the New York Times, residents have feared for their safety.

A controlled burn of toxic materials, has filled the air, and covered surface waters with soil -- and soil with chemicals.

Dead fish that floated in nearby creeks. And an unnerving aroma has lingered in the air. Okay.

STU: This is a lot of -- this is a lot of evidence.

GLENN: But for many commentators, from across the political spectrum. The speculation has gone far beyond known facts.

Right-wing commentators have been particularly critical, using the crisis, to HEP sow distrust about government agencies. And suggest that damage could be irreparable.

You mean like, we have to act on global warming, and completely destroy all of any kind of modern living, and eat bugs? Within the next ten years?

Or the earth will be destroyed forever?

You mean that kind of irreparable?

On social media, like Twitter and telegram, commentators have called the situation, the largest environmental disaster in history. Or simple --icismy Chernobyl 2.0. Invoking the 1986 nuclear disaster.

By the way, let's go back and see how the press reacted to the Three Mile Island accident. Remember?

That was the greatest nuclear meltdown of all -- no. Nope.

Nothing was measured in the air. Nothing. Nothing.

STU: Yeah. The worst side effects of that incident were the equivalent of a full set of chess x-rays.

GLENN: Correct. And that, they made in -- they stopped nuclear energy.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Because of that.

STU: And arguably caused day -- if you want to believe their narrative, or at least their outcomes. They're not going to give this narrative. But arguably caused the problems that we had with global warming today. Right?

They shut down the nuclear industries, so we had to go to other --

GLENN: Stay on fossil fuels.

STU: Fossil fuels.

And in their world, this is what has caused all the problems.

Which, by the way, which means they caused all the problems.

GLENN: Well, isn't that what progressivism worked?

They caused the problems, and then tried to fix the problems they caused. Which causes more problems, which they then try to fix those problems.

It's a never-ending series, chain of events.

They warned, they said, they warned, that vital water reservoirs, serving states downriver could be badly contaminated.

Key word there, could.

And they suggested that the authorities, railroad companies, and mainstream news media were purposely obscuring the full toll of the crisis. Right.

Because when have you ever done that, mainstream media. Government.

Or railroad companies.

STU: You've already had several bits of information that have come out, that different chemicals were on board, that we didn't know about initially.

There were more effects than we thought. Of course, they're going to speculate, that there was more than they told us.

GLENN: Stu, please read the New York Times.

STU: I've read the New York Times. And the New York Times, every time there's any sort of chemical that leaks anywhere on the planet, they say it's going to be a catastrophe. This is the entire papers. Is basically based on someone dripped some chemical 3,000 miles away.

GLENN: But those were disasters. This is not.

Listen --

STU: This is fine.

GLENN: Since then the EPA has said air quality has returned to safe levels. Residents have been allowed to return.

Yeah. A chemical order lingers, because people can smell the contaminants, even when they are far below hazardous concentrations. This is all according to the EPA.

That's what it says right here.

Water testing found no indication of risk to public water systems so far, the EPA said.

Through private -- though private wells should be tested, but the public water, fine. The private water we're not sure.

Utilities drawing from the Ohio river were taking precautions at least one company said.

At town hall meetings on Wednesday, frustrated residents, pressed officials for assurances that the air and water were safe.

Experts urged caution as they assessed the long-term consequences. Warning that airborne contaminants, settle on to surfaces. Seep into wells, and migrate through cracks and basements to homes.

Yet, influencers and right-wing commentators were quick to draw the conclusion of their own, theorizing about the extent of damage in and the federal response, which they say, have amounted to an extensive cover-up.

STU: This makes no sense. How could the New York Times take that side of the story?

There's a good argument to be made. This happens a lot. You have an accident like this. And it's a pretty natural series of events. That people who live close by. They are pretty worried about it. Because they can smell stuff in the air, and they're worried about what's going on with their water. They are worried if their children are going to die or develop cancer next week.

All really rational fears. And then maybe some scientific experts come in and say, we don't think it's a risk.

When that series of events occurs. The New York Times always sides with the families.

Always sides against the companies. Always says, actually, we found some person, this one random person, who has this effect.

It's not proven to be connected. But we're going to say it's connected anyway.

They always, always side with the freaking out side of this this argument. And for this one side. This one incident, they're all of a sudden, on board, with it don't go going on.

Seriously, isn't this weird? Seriously, isn't this weird?

GLENN: No. You have no -- you have no example of that. Let me give you -- let me give you an unrelated story.

Headline, Russian pipeline leaks spark climate fears, as huge volumes of methane spew into the atmosphere.

STU: Every time.

GLENN: What is methane?

That is natural gas. Natural gas. Key word, natural. Okay?

It seeps out into the atmosphere all the time. Because it's coming from the earth, and it's natural gas.

Not man made chemicals, that are not meant to burn, that they just set on fire.
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No, no, no. This is natural gas. They call it methane, which is also what comes out of the butt and the mouth of a cow, that they say, God created all of this. This is a master plan.

This is an incredible thing.

But what he didn't know, is that he actually created animals, that live on the planet, that spew a toxic chemical that will make their entire planet die!

That's what -- yeah. Yeah. Well, if you don't believe in God, you believe in -- you know, natural evolution.

Well, if the cow and the farts from animals, is toxic to the planet. Well, evolution will figure that out.

No, no, no. No.

Methane, natural. Natural. Not chemicals in the sky.

Again, used, made for World War I, setting those on fire. No. It's not a problem.

Climate scientists acknowledge that it's hard to accurately quantify the exact size of the emissions. And say leaks. Are, quote, a wee bubble in the ocean, compared to the massive amounts of methane emitted around the world every day.

Nonetheless, environmental campaigners argue the incident reaffirms the risk of sabotage or accident makes fossil fuel infrastructure, a ticking time bomb.

Wow.

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GLENN: Okay. So let me tell you exactly what I I think is going on. These people do not care about the things they say they care about. It's all a sham. It's all a sham.

This whole global warming thing. Look, at first it was global -- no. First it was global ice age coming. When I was growing up.

It was an ice age. Then it was global warming.

Now it's global climate change, because it's going different ways. Okay?

Now you can't predict it. But they were absolutely sure you could predict it, just a few years ago. That it was going to be warming. Now, we can't predict it. But we can predict, that will it will be unpredictable.

Oh, okay.

It's a sham.

Now, I believe climate is always changing. We may be in a new period, but all the rest of it is bullcrap for control.

Otherwise, they would care about this just as much as they care about everything else. But see, this one has politics involved. This is a red state.

This is a state where they don't care about. They'll rush FEMA any place. Any place.

Well, not to the border here, where we're being overrun. Not to Ohio. Where the skies are on fire.

No, no, no, no. These people honestly don't care about any human condition, except for their condition of power.