<story><title>Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2023/02/14/1156567743/health-east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment-chemicals</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Workaccount2</author><text>Before everyone loses there mind, because this story has oddly been on blast 2 weeks after the incident:&lt;p&gt;VC is a gas a room temperature. None of the VC cars were ruptured in the crash. They were vented and ignited by workers to avoid explosion. Burning VC produces carbon oxides, HCl, phosgene, and formaldehyde. HCl, Phosgene become hydrochloric acid in the atmosphere. The total amount of hydrochloric acid this could possibly produce would hardly register in the water table. Formaldehyde would be trace too, similar to fruits and vegetables.&lt;p&gt;EPA site details without the hysteria:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;response.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;site&amp;#x2F;site_profile.aspx?site_id=15933&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;response.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;site&amp;#x2F;site_profile.aspx?site_id=1593...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;List of cars in the accident:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;response.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;15933&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;TRAIN%2032N%20-%20EAST%20PALESTINE%20-%20derail%20list%20Norfolk%20Southern%20document.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;response.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;15933&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;TRAIN%2032N%20-%2...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colpabar</author><text>The reason people are so upset isn&amp;#x27;t necessarily because of the environmental impact, it&amp;#x27;s because the people who work on these trains have been warning things like this could happen for years, and when they tried to strike over it, the federal government stepped in and crushed them into submission. There was a car on that train that was on fire for at least 20 miles before the derailment. If I can get pulled over for having a busted tail light, a train full of toxic chemicals should get stopped for being on fire.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;ve been frantically telling everyone to calm down in every thread about this story for some reason. People are upset because it&amp;#x27;s another case of the government completely failing to do their jobs of keeping regular people safe, and before you claim that people on reddit are saying crazy things again, &lt;i&gt;this isn&amp;#x27;t reddit and no one is saying those things here&lt;/i&gt;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2023/02/14/1156567743/health-east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment-chemicals</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Workaccount2</author><text>Before everyone loses there mind, because this story has oddly been on blast 2 weeks after the incident:&lt;p&gt;VC is a gas a room temperature. None of the VC cars were ruptured in the crash. They were vented and ignited by workers to avoid explosion. Burning VC produces carbon oxides, HCl, phosgene, and formaldehyde. HCl, Phosgene become hydrochloric acid in the atmosphere. The total amount of hydrochloric acid this could possibly produce would hardly register in the water table. Formaldehyde would be trace too, similar to fruits and vegetables.&lt;p&gt;EPA site details without the hysteria:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;response.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;site&amp;#x2F;site_profile.aspx?site_id=15933&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;response.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;site&amp;#x2F;site_profile.aspx?site_id=1593...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;List of cars in the accident:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;response.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;15933&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;TRAIN%2032N%20-%20EAST%20PALESTINE%20-%20derail%20list%20Norfolk%20Southern%20document.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;response.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;15933&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;TRAIN%2032N%20-%2...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fabian2k</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re assuming that the vinyl chloride burns perfectly and all of it will be converted without residue, which I don&amp;#x27;t think is a safe assumption. The products of burning it are less problematic than the original, but setting it on fire doesn&amp;#x27;t simply solve all problems here.</text></comment>