The Biden administration says it could soon launch a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride.
WASHINGTON — 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 smoke following the fiery train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
“If one positive thing can come out of the toxic train derailment in East Palestine — and I would argue nothing positive has come out of it so far — it is for the Biden administration to use their existing legal authority to start the process to ban vinyl chloride,″ said Judith Enck, a former regional EPA administrator and president of Beyond Plastics, an advocacy group that seeks to end plastic pollution.
The Vinyl Institute, a trade group that represents manufacturers, called the effort to ban vinyl chloride misguided. Debate over vinyl chloride has simmered for years, but gained a new urgency after the Feb. 3 derailment of a 50-car Norfolk Southern freight train in East Palestine. Three days later, emergency crews released toxic vinyl chloride from five tank cars and burned it to keep them from exploding.
Conard faulted what she called “an insatiable demand” by Americans for plastic products that has"driven the need for increased transport of these hazardous substances, placing communities like mine at risk every single day.''
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