The train that derailed in Ohio last month was carrying vinyl chloride, used to make PVC plastics — which we need to use less.
to test the air for dioxins, which can also cause cancer and linger in the environment long after vinyl chloride and other plastic chemicals are burned.
Neglecting infrastructure that makes U.S. society function — like public transportation — endangers our ability to respond in the case of a disaster or attack. When environmental groups and the EPA started noticing increased diseases and dying fish in the 1980s, Dow made modest offers to buy residents out of their homes, often barely enough to buy or rent a new home. When residents refused, they faced pressure. If they didn’t take the offer, the company suggested, their property would soon become worthless because of the pollution. By the early 1990s, the town was entirely abandoned, save for a graveyard.
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