The Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg has finally broken his silence over the devastating train derailment in Ohio and unfolding environmental disaster after 10 days has passed.

In so many cases, the government’s solution is usually worse than the original problem and reports show the response to the 150-car train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio going as expected. The train cars were hauling hazardous materials including vinyl chloride, diethylene glycol, polypropylene glycol, propylene glycol, polyethylene, polyvinyl and petroleum. After many federal agents responded to the crash, the decision was made to trigger a “controlled burn” to cleanup the area.

Gov. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) ordered a complete evacuation of the area as the dangerous chemicals released are harmful to humans. After an onslaught of negative social media coverage of the crash, Buttigieg finally addressed the situation which many are describing as the largest environmental disaster in United States history.

“I continue to be concerned about the impacts of the Feb 3 train derailment near East Palestine, OH,” Buttigieg said, “and the effects on families in the ten days since their lives were upended through no fault of their own. It’s important that families have access to useful & accurate information:”

“USDOT has been supporting the investigation led by The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Our Federal Rail Administration and Pipelines and Hazardous Materials teams were onsite within hours of the initial incident and continue to be actively engaged,” he continued.

“We will look to these investigation results & based on them, use all relevant authorities to ensure accountability and continue to support safety. In the meantime, our Federal partners at EPA are onsite and monitoring indoor and outdoor air quality to test for VOC’s and other chemicals of concern. The EPA has screened 219 homes and no detections were identified — and 181 homes remain.”

The chemicals may impact the Ohio River Basin, which affects more than 30 million people and supplies over 5 million people with necessary drinking water. Buttigieg responded in tweet form and did not hold a major press conference which only made tensions worse and further solidified his disastrous handling of not only this disaster but the supply chain crisis, the airline fiasco and crippling infrastructure projects.

This disaster in Ohio has been widely ignored by the main stream media and if it wasn’t for the outpouring of negative coverage on social media, Buttigieg spoke in public but was very brief.

Buttigieg’s time as Transportation Secretary has been more about woke ideology than the actual needs of the country. “We have heard way too many stories from generations past of infrastructure where you got a neighborhood, often a neighborhood of color, that finally sees the project come to them, but everyone in the hard hats on that project, doing the good paying jobs, don’t look like they came from anywhere near the neighborhood.”

The Transportation Secretary needs to focus on the needs of the country and less about his personal agenda.