Environmental Protection Agency orders rail company to ‘pause’ shipments from site pending a review of plans to dispose of waste near Houston and Detroit
is not just “why is it coming here?’’ said Bryan Parras, who is part of Sierra Club’s Gulf Coast’s healthy communities program.
A Norfolk Southern train carrying vinyl chloride used to produce PVC plastic derailed on 3 February in the small industrial town of 4,700 people, located at the edge of the Appalachian hills in Ohio. Disposal of the leftover contaminated water and soil raises new questions about toxic chemicals’ life cycle as the waste heads to facilities with histories of problems.
Independent public health experts say water and soil are also likely contaminated with dioxins, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons , perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances , and other similar dangerous compounds. But the EPA has so farThe soil was scheduled to go to a US Ecology landfill in Belleville, Michigan, which sits at the edge of metro Detroit and just a few miles from Ann Arbor, two of the state’s most populous regions.
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