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Washington — The Environmental Protection Agency is saying it may launch a risk evaluation of vinyl chloride soon, after environmental and community groups petitioned the agency in July to step up its ...

A new report from environmentalists says that 3 million people are at risk from train accidents like the one that saw vinyl chloride monomer spill and burn last year in East Palestine, Ohio. The ...

(CNN) — Federal investigators released a spate of new details Thursday about the toxic train wreck that spewed toxic chemicals and wreaked havoc in East Palestine, Ohio. The 38 Norfolk Southern train ...

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry creates and updates toxicological profiles for hazardous substances. The profiles provide an overview of substances’ adverse health effect ...

The residents of East Palestine, Ohio, have more than enough to worry about. A train wreck with black fumes of burning chemicals pouring from a tank is frightening enough. The absolute last thing they ...

Cody Smith (left) and David Grant (right), professors of pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Connecticut, talk about how the vinyl chloride spill from the trail derailment in Ohio will ...

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 ...

About two weeks after a train carrying toxic and combustible materials derailed just outside a small town near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and filled the skies with black smoke, questions abound over ...