Our rating: Partly false. The use of vinyl chloride in aerosols was banned in 1974, but it can still be used in other ways. Most vinyl chloride currently produced in the U.S. is used to make ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – Vinyl chloride – the chemical in several of the train cars that derailed and burned in East Palestine, Ohio, in February 2023 – can wreak havoc on the human liver. It ...

The EPA’s announcement on vinyl chloride and the other four chemicals – acetaldehyde, acrylonitrile, benzenamine, and MBOCA – kicks off a yearlong process during which the agency plans to ...

Lire cet article en français. Vinyl chloride – the chemical in several of the train cars that derailed and burned in East Palestine, Ohio, in February 2023 – can wreak havoc on the human liver.

Environmental and public health activists cheered the development, saying the EPA should have banned vinyl chloride years ago. “If one positive thing can come out of the toxic train derailment ...

Vinyl chloride is among a range of chemicals eligible for review, and "EPA could begin a risk evaluation on vinyl chloride in the near future,'' the agency said in a statement to The Associated Press.

The train that derailed in Ohio last month was carrying vinyl chloride, used to make PVC plastics — which we need to use less. Ohio train derailment is a reminder of plastic's dangers - Los ...

The Biden administration says it could soon launch a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic black smoke following ...

The more than 100,000-gallon vinyl chloride shipment that burned in Ohio was on a 1,600-mile journey from a chemicals plant just outside Houston, Texas, to a PVC flooring plant in Pedricktown, N.J.

East Palestine residents waiting for all-clear to return home 02:04. Days after crews released and burned toxic chemicals transported by a wrecked train in Ohio, residents remain concerned about ...

Vinyl chloride, which is used to make PVC plastics, dilutes fairly quickly in outside air and water. One concern for lingering exposure from the derailment involves private wells.

The freight train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio on Feb. 3, 2023 was carrying vinyl chloride, a chemical that can cause liver damage. The chemical, which is used to make PVC piping, has ...