Ohio Train Derailment

Ohio Train Derailment: Separating Fact From Fiction

A breakdown of what’s known, and what’s not, about the incident and its aftermath.

Plan to incinerate soil from Ohio train derailment is ‘horrifying’, says expert

Soil is being sent to a nearby incinerator with a history of clean air violations, raising fears the chemicals will be redistributed.

Weeks After Ohio Train Derailment, Health Concerns Mount

The scene in East Palestine is reminiscent of Flint, where the authorities offered shifting narratives and thin assurances to low-income families who had few options but to stay and hope. There, as in East Palestine, pallets of bottled water were stacked onto porches as neighbors exchanged advice about how to safely brush their teeth and bathe their children.

After the Ohio Train Derailment: Trouble Breathing, Dying Animals, and Saying Goodbye

“I am concerned that the area has been deemed safe so quickly without extensive data to show the risk has been reduced,” said Dr. Michael Koehler, member of the American Chemical Society’s Committee on Chemical Safety. “As long as safety concerns remain, it is hard to understand how they authorized residents to return.”

Bomb Train: Calls Grow for New Laws on Rail Safety After Toxic Disaster in East Palestine, Ohio

Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, continue to demand answers about how a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed February 3, releasing hazardous materials into the air, water and soil.

Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment

Of particular concern is the vinyl chloride, which was loaded on five cars — a carcinogen that becomes a gas at room temperature. It it commonly used to make polyvinyl chloride or PVC, which is a kind of plastic used for pipes, wire and cable coatings and car parts.

Here's What The Ohio Train Wreck Really Has in Common With The Chernobyl Disaster

Although the intense imagery from Ohio might have onlookers believe the state has a mini Chernobyl on its hands, the scale of Chernobyl's destruction was much worse. However, the environmental impact of the East Palestine incident should not be ignored, experts say.

How non-scientists can assess the danger of mystery chemicals

Recent accidents have provoked anxiety about industrial pollution. Here's how to tell how harmful a substance is.

Massive chemical spill after train derailment in Ohio, toxic vinyl chloride and other carcinogens trigger fears of large environmental disaster

Some people are already calling it the largest environmental disaster in the USA in recent times. As per reports, the burning of vinyl chloride and other chemicals has released toxic hydrogen chloride and phosgene into the air.

Ohio is facing a chemical disaster. Biden must declare a state of emergency

A train derailed and flooded a town with cancer-causing chemicals. But something larger, and more troubling, is at work.

Ohio town rues chemical train derailment as 'our Chernobyl'

For East Palestine residents John and Lisa Hamner, life as they knew it came to a screeching, flaming halt at 8:55 pm on 3 February.

Ohio Train Derailment: What is vinyl chloride?

Vinyl chloride is also called chloroethene, chloroethylene, and ethylene monochloride. What is vinyl chloride used for? Vinyl chloride is primarily used to make polyvinyl chloride, which Cancer.gov says is a hard resin used to make plastic products like pipes, packaging materials, wire and cable coatings. It is produced as a combustion product in tobacco smoke as well...

The health risks for Ohioans after derailment of train with toxic chemicals

According to the CDC, some vinyl chloride can dissolve in water, and it can migrate to groundwater or spread through the breakdown of other chemicals. Unlike some other chemicals, such as compounds known as polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, vinyl chloride is unlikely to build up in the plants or animals that people eat.

The Ohio train derailment underscores the dangers of the plastics boom

As the petrochemical industry grows, the disaster is a reminder of the health and safety risks that accompany reliance on fossil fuels.

What Is Vinyl Chloride, The Chemical That Caused Ohio’s Immense Explosion?

Vinyl chloride is stored and transported under pressure to liquefy it. Although transportation devices are designed to be impact and heat-resistant, these measures failed in this case. On release, mono vinyl chloride forms a cloud with a density around twice that of air, keeping it low to the ground and hindering dispersal. It will explode at ordinary temperatures over a wide range of concentrations in air. When it burns, one of the products is hydrogen chloride, which can react with water vapor in the atmosphere to produce acid rain.

Ohio train derailment: How dangerous are the chemicals?

Here's what we know about the chemicals on the train, their uses, and their potential impacts on people and the environment.