Toxins from Ohio train derailment spread to 16 states: Data | Vargas Reports

Three days after the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3, 2023, officials — with the EPA’s blessing — burned 116,000 gallons of vinyl chloride into the region.

Now, for the first time since the incident, new data reveals just how far those toxins spread.

Within minutes, a mushroom-like cloud of toxins billowed into the atmosphere and smothered the area.

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[myssilightful]

Think about all the farm grown foods this has contaminated.

[Matok]

Can't wait for absolutely no one to ever be held accountable for this.

[neilaslayer]

CORRECTION. The disaster DID NOT cause the chemicals to catch fire. The TRAIN COMPANY SET IT ON FIRE. This was ARSON.

[frankw]

But god forbid I put the “wrong” muffler on my car. Prison time for violating the clean air act…

[timefortinybirdandfriends]

They burned these chemicals on purpose.🙄🤦 WTF did they think was going to happen. Sheer stupidity.

[A_World_Full_of_Lies]

Can’t eat, the food is bad. Can’t drink, the water is bad. Can’t breathe, the air is bad.

[davidhodge]

Who ever set that on fire and helped make that decision should be on trial.

[jak]

We are still interested in what happened in East Palestine Ohio!!!

[paulrickman]

The weather radar images during the burn were horrifying. The winds that day changed 360 degrees spreading pollution everywhere. A few days later, the images were nowhere to be found on the internet.

[JesterMax]

"You may not be interested..." what a bizarre and insensitive way to open this segment.

[artspark]

This is criminal why aren't the CEOs of this company in jail?

[kathleenhillock]

And yet the RR CEOs are still raking in billions and being held accountable for nothing.

[Marvolo]

Those states have a duty to sue the companies and people responsible for that disaster.

[MB-qxvn]

So let me get this straight: I throw a bottle out of my car window and get fined $200, but a major corp. explodes a train full of toxic vinyl chloride and nothing happens? Whoopsies?

[damocles]

You really think this was an accident, we are dying in denial.

[crimony]

There is no safe amount of vinyl chloride.

[timothynelson]

What we have done to the earth, in the name of profit, is unconscionable.

[codyhughes]

Thanks for actually reporting news that affects people.. somehow government and corporate corruption has to end.

[Novastar.SaberCombat]

There's almost nothing worse than poisoning the soil. After all, that's EVERYTHING. Water tables (wells), crops, dust in the air, foundation upon which everything and everyone stands. It's a bloody shame.

[Rhond-ir]

They know what the health risks and the toxicity of those chemicals are.They just don't want to say it because it's so horribly terrible.