A Feb. 22 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of a woman's face and scribbled mathematical formulas. "Trying to understand why a train was carrying over 300,000 gallons of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vinyl chloride entered the spotlight after the Feb. 3 Ohio train derailment. But the hazardous substance has been around for ...

Following a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, just over a month ago, authorities carried out a controlled release of the toxic vinyl chloride gas into the atmosphere to prevent a massive ...

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. That kind of damage typically requires ...

Vinyl chloride is a huge threat to the health and safety of our communities. The disaster in East Palestine made it clearer than ever: we must ban this toxic chemical. Vinyl chloride is a huge threat ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

* Vinyl Chloride is a manufactured substance that does not occur naturally. * Used to make PVC which is used in a variety of common plastic products such as pipes, cable coatings, packing materials ...

In 1974, the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned the use of vinyl chloride in aerosols. It is still used primarily to produce polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, one of the most widely produced plastics ...

A national advocacy group argues that the range of health and safety hazards linked to vinyl chloride are serious enough to warrant banning it entirely. The gas – which is the main ingredient in the ...

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 been shown to cause liver ...

In the 1970s, epidemiologists found that workers in factories using vinyl chloride, the key ingredient for PVC plastics, had unusually high rates of a rare form of liver cancer called angiosarcoma.