Vinyl Chloride

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4 pointsjohndevor4 comments

It would really suck if a train derailed in say, Ohio, and released a ton of this stuff creating an environmental nightmare.

Surprisingly little news coverage of the massive cloud of that shit headed east.

https://twitter.com/RaleighFam/status/1622948184476483585

Ohio catastrophe is ‘wake-up call’ to dangers of deadly train derailments

"Five days after a train carrying vinyl chloride derailed and exploded near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, crews ignited a controlled burn of toxic chemicals to prevent a much more dangerous explosion."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/11/ohio-train-d...

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