A transportation oversight board reveals why railcars with the cancer-causing chemical vinyl chloride were burned in the aftermath of the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is revealing new details about why authorities burned toxic chemicals in the emergency response to the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment in February. Over a thousand documents released by NTSB reveal the state chose to burn the hazardous material vinyl chloride despite the long-term health risks to the 4,200