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EPA Paused Waste Shipments From Ohio Train Derailment After Texas Uproar
Last week in Houston, politicians protested indignantly as news emerged that hazardous waste from the East Palestine, Ohio, trail derailment was traveling to their city for disposal. Trucks were carrying toxic wastewater more than 1,300 miles from eastern Ohio to inject it underground at the Texas Molecular facility in Deer Park, on the edge of […]
Read MoreDerailed Train in Ohio Carried Chemical Used to Make PVC, ‘the Worst’ of the Plastics
The flames and deadly black smoke that billowed high over a small town on the Ohio and Pennsylvania border Monday were an acute reminder of a type of commonly used plastic with a particularly troublesome environmental and health record. To prevent exploding rail cars, flying shrapnel and the uncontrolled release of killer gases, authorities vented […]
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