It seems very strange that they'd rather burn the vinyl chloride instead of attempting to capture or recover it, both from an environmental and economic perspective.
Picking up liquid off the ground seems very difficult, I imagine.
Clinic to open near Ohio derailment as health worries linger
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#33I'm pretty worried about this. The fallout/plume won't just be isolated to a region we can avoid or mitigate. It's in our waterways and in our air. I wouldn't be surprised if a year from now we can detect it all around the world. We might not know the full extent of the disaster for many years.
My unresearched hunch is that your concern is under-appreciating how big the Earth is.
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#35A bunch of people here in CT have been posting pictures of weird white deposits on their cars from rain (which, apparently, is currently carrying stuff from OH). Seems like there's a pretty high chance that this ends up as one of those things where we may not be fully aware of the fallout (no pun intended) until years from now, if ever.
Those “weird white deposits” are normal and have always been a thing. The rainwater evaporates but leaves some minerals behind
The fact that I'm referring to them as "weird" means that they are not, in fact, normal. Presumably if any of these people had seen such a thing before, they wouldn't be so concerned about it.
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The left is downplaying it because it happened on their guy's watch, and he's not doing much about it. In fact, the Biden administration just said that Ohio wouldn't get any disaster money for this. So either the derailment's consequences are nothing, or the left's guy is ineffective at dealing with the real world. The left therefore chooses to say (and even think?) that the problems are nothing.
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The left is downplaying it because it happened on their guy's watch, and he's not doing much about it. In fact, the Biden administration just said that Ohio wouldn't get any disaster money for this. So either the derailment's consequences are nothing, or the left's guy is ineffective at dealing with the real world. The left therefore chooses to say (and even think?) that the problems are nothing.
This is exactly it and it’s so sad to watch. Had it happened under trump the sides would have been switched.
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The American liberal media is not "left" they are liberal.
That being said, they are probably trying to downplay it because it's directly related to the railroad union strike that Biden shut down a few months back. They wanted more time off-- which would mean more workers and less hours.
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#40It seems very strange that they'd rather burn the vinyl chloride instead of attempting to capture or recover it, both from an environmental and economic perspective.
It boils at 7.88°F.
It sounds like without pressurization or chilling the risk of an explosive release was deemed higher than the risk of burning it.