While the US government is dispensing millions of dollars in resources to treat balloons as an existential crisis, a small town in Ohio finds itself engulfed in what actually looks like the apocalypse. Perhaps by design, all of the drama surrounding violations of US airspace by Chinese spy initiatives has done well to keep what is becoming one of the worst environmental disasters in recent memory from getting any headlines. The chaos began early last week when a train of more than 100 cars derailed in East Palestine, Ohio near the state’s border with Pennsylvania with roughly 5,000 residents. The accident launched fifty of those hundred freight cars from the tracks. Twenty of the freight cars on the train were carrying hazardous materials, ten of which were detailed. While the accident had no fatalities, of those ten cars, five contained pressurized vinyl chloride, a highly flammable carcinogenic gas. “The risks of catastrophic liquefied natural gas releases in accidents is too gre
A team of 19 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) representatives will be asking residents in East Palestine to complete 30-minute surveys.
New drone footage shows East Palestine waterways being treated after they were contaminated by toxic chemicals released in a train derailment on February 3.
The announcement comes after residents report a wave of sickness despite officials ruling there were no health hazards detected in the town s water or air.