2024.05.25 - Chemist, Data Expert, EPA Whistleblower Dr. Robert Kroutil

The Jen Charlton Show

Guests:

• Dr. Robert Kroutil, Expert Chemist and EPA data expert for the past 20 years, EPA Whistleblower and Former EPA Contractor,
• Lesley Pacey, Environmental Investigator, Government Accountability Project (GAP), supporting, protecting and litigating on behalf of Whistleblowers for more than 40 years.

Discussions covers the heroic testimony and back story of the East Palestine chemical and toxic regional disaster by a former EPA contractor turned EPA Whistleblower. Dr. Kroutil shares the EPA decision to turn off the plane's toxic infrared chemical censors and to take only pictures of the contaminated creeks with toxic highly dangerous fumes. Instead of 300 minutes daily starting the first day, which was the EPA standard protocol, they took only 8 minutes total on the 4th day...

BIO of Dr. Kroutil:

• Dr. Robert Kroutil is a nationally recognized expert in the field of passive infrared chemical detection to address homeland security issues and climate issues. He has over 34 years experience within the Department of Defense assigned to the Edgewood Research and Development and Engineering Center, Edgewood, Md. After 2000, he supported the Department of Defense Joint Staff (J3-Operations). Dr Kroutil has also worked for the Department of Energy Los Alamos National Laboratory for nine years on homeland security matters. Work in private industry included employment with the Dynamac Corporation supporting the ASPECT project which is currently the Nation’s only airborne emergency response chemical and radiological detection system. He is currently a senior scientist for Kalman and Company, Inc which is based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Dr. Kroutil is the author and coauthor of over 28 open literature publications, 70 invited scientific national or international conferences, 1 U.S. Patent, and 2 book chapters that address homeland security issues. He has developed advanced software analysis tools for detecting environmental chemical species in the atmosphere.

  Dr. Kroutil was the leading research scientist and program manager for Project SAFEGUARD which was a development project of the Department of Defence Chemical and Biological Defense Program. In that position, he led a team to develop advanced technology for defense and homeland security in a skunk works environment. He also developed policy to address chemical and radiological issues that are of critical importance to homeland security.

  Dr.Kroutil is a native of Oklahoma and graduated with a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Oklahoma State University. He was a graduate from Yukon High School, Yukon, Oklahoma. Dr. Kroutil is married and lives in Santa Fe ,NM.

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