How could DeWine allow for the “controlled burn” of the chemicals lying on the ground? Did no one tell him that burning vinyl chloride (or whatever the correct name is for that toxic chemical) could produce fosgene (a poison gas made famous during the WWI trench war)? When Biden later said the E Palestine derailment was not the type of disaster qualifiying for FEMA assistance, did the Governor object? Will he objec now that one of his largest cities is restricting the use of water from the Ohio River?
All of these “follow the science” rats from covid days don’t have a clue about science. If JD Vance can find dead fish in a creek in the winter on just a spur of the minute stroll, then their “testers” were politically motivated.
I live just north of the Ohio and about an hour east of Cincinnati which announced it was not using the river water for a while.
Fortunately, our water comes from a tributary feeding into the Ohio. I think the Scioto River would be an major waterway aquifer break preventing any aquifer flow into our area.
I’m surprised Wikipedia hasn’t censored this by now:
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Environment pollution
According to the EPA, “vinyl chloride emissions from polyvinyl chloride (PVC), ethylene dichloride (EDC), and vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) plants cause or contribute to air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to result in an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible illness. Vinyl chloride is a known human carcinogen that causes a rare cancer of the liver.”[34] EPA’s 2001 updated Toxicological Profile and Summary Health Assessment for VCM in its Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) database lowers EPA’s previous risk factor estimate by a factor of 20 and concludes that “because of the consistent evidence for liver cancer in all the studies...and the weaker association for other sites, it is concluded that the liver is the most sensitive site, and protection against liver cancer will protect against possible cancer induction in other tissues.”[35]
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