Experts called by the US National Transportation Safety Board, or NTSB, to testify about February’s train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, said at a hearing Thursday that tank cars containing ...

Vinyl chloride is dozens of times less toxic per molecule than the U.S.-banned insecticide DDT but more dangerous per part than ammonia and natural gas, ... temperature can change that," Gray said.

YOUNGSTOWN — With the Norfolk Southern train derailment civil trial in its third week, the focus of testimony Tuesday in U.S. District Court was Steve Smith, technical manager for OxyVinyls, the ...

(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 has… ...

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Norfolk Southern and its contractors botched the decision to blow open five vinyl chloride tank cars after last year’s disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and ...

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 ...

Channel 11 News spoke with Dr. Juliane Beier, a doctor and a Pitt scientist who has spent her life studying vinyl chloride, the substance that burned after the East Palestine train derailment.

In the aftermath of the derailment, residents of East Palestine have demanded an explanation for the decision to vent and burn toxic vinyl chloride from five derailed tanker cars, which sent a ...

YOUNGSTOWN — With the Norfolk Southern train derailment civil trial in its third week, the focus of testimony Tuesday in U.S. District Court was Steve Smith, technical manager for OxyVinyls, the ...

Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, have called for more clarity on the decision to vent and burn toxic vinyl chloride from derailed tanker cars. NTSBGov/Handout/Reuters Facebook ...