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🚨 The Home Depot: Stop Selling Poison Plastic 👇

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#Business #Consumers #Health #PublicHealth #Chemicals #Toxins #Plastics #PVC #VinylChloride #HomeDepot #TakeAction #Petition #SignThePetition

Chemical industry lobbyists will run chemical safety oversight at US EPA The Trump administration is putting lobbyists and attorneys from the petroleum and chemical industries into leadership positions at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Several of these indiv...

Chemical industry lobbyists now in charge of chemical safety oversight at US EPA

#EPA #trump #toxicchemicals #regulatorycapture #pubhealth #publichealth #EPAFacts #industryinfluence #cleanair #formaldehyde #vinylchloride #asbestos #environment

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.@EPA must put people’s health over petrochemical industry profits and take real action on #VinylChloride to protect communities like #EastPalestine from future disasters. This chemical disaster was not—and will not be—an isolated incident.

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Can #PeteStauber #StopTrackTragedies by ignoring them ?

ICYMI #MN08 #RepPeteStauber did not acknowledge the 2 year anniversary of the #EastPalestineOhio #vinylchloride train derailment nor sponsored or demanded a vote on the Bipartisan #HR1633 Reducing Accidents In Locomotives Act (aka #RAIL Act)!

Two years after Ohio train derailment, Vice President JD Vance visits East Palestine, OH - Toxic-Free Future Toxic-Free Future supports the East Palestine, Ohio community's request for the White House to issue an emergency declaration to safeguard residents.

Today marks the 2nd anniversary of the #vinylchloride train disaster in #EastPalestine, OH, and residents are still waiting for a federal emergency declaration.

Today Vice President JD Vance visited the community.

Our statement: toxicfreefuture.org/press-room/t...

On Vinyl - Orion Magazine A historical prequel to East Palestine's toxic train disaster

Two year anniversary of the train derailment at East Palestine — #vinylchloride #envhist #plasticstreaty

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Two years after Ohio train derailment, Vice President JD Vance visits East Palestine, OH - Toxic-Free Future Toxic-Free Future supports the East Palestine, Ohio community's request for the White House to issue an emergency declaration to safeguard residents.

Today marks the two year anniversary of the #EastPalestine Ohio #vinylchloride train derailment.

@toxicfreefuture.bsky.social continues to support the local community’s requests for a federal emergency declaration and issued the following statement in response:
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Chemical from East Palestine disaster passes millions by train every day NBC's Cynthia McFadden speaks to a member of the organization Toxic Free Future who released a new report finding that 36 million pounds of vinyl chloride is traveling on more than 200 rail cars daily...

Saturday was the anniversary of the train derailment in OH. NBC highlighted new research about the risks millions face from the ongoing shipment of #vinylchloride
 
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New report estimates "that up to 36M lbs of #vinylchloride travels on more than 200 rail cars across nearly 2,000 miles of U.S. railways at any given moment... puts more than 3M people at risk, inc communities from TX to NJ."...

Union Carbide Corp Chronology of PVC Activities, 1928-1976.
Archival doc, dated 1978
Available via: @ToxicDocs
#plasticpollution #vinylchloride #envhist #eastpalestie
Source:
cdn.toxicdocs.org/p5/p5ykp2KaoxGZYXXwKGg0m...

Where #vinylchloride production began in the US during the Depression.

Carbide and Carbon Co.
(later Union Carbide, now part of Dow)
S. Charleston Works, Kanawha River Valley,
WV.

Source: https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/pdf/century0612.pdf #envhist

SC Johnson’s CEO on Doing the Right Thing, Even When It H... Mindful of his company’s long history of sensitivity to t...

Once upon a time Sarah Wrap had #vinylchloride in its supply chain and made a change (to #polyethylene) — here, via Harvard Bus. Review #EastPalenstine — hbr.org/2015/04/sc-johnsons-ceo-...

A Train Derails in Paulsboro, N.J., Releasing 23,000 Gall...

2012 derailment involving 23K gallons of #vinylchloride Paulsboro, NJ h/t Mike Shade #EastPalestine

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Want to read about what happened at Illiopolis, Il? Let's queue up Dr. @ssteingraber1 via @Orion_Magazine --The Pirates of Illiopolis orionmagazine.org/article/the-pirate-of-il... #PVC #vinyl #vinylchloride #dioxins #plasticpollution #EastPalestine

🔥The Vinyl Instit has mtgs planned in DC next month. I hope Congress knows how the people of TX, LA, NJ, PA & #EastPalestine OH feel about #vinylchloride & PVC plastics. @RiverValleyOrg @StopToxics @ciel_tweets @ToxicsFree @brkfreeplastic @risestjames @EJinAction

Working from the #eastpalestine manifest (via EPA), 3/5 cars w #vinylchloride (per railroad reporting marks/car ID) belonged to Occidental Chemical (Oxy Vinyls), other 2 were leased from Trinity Industrial Leasing & GATX Corp. 1/x...

Evaluation of Industrial Routes to Vinyl Chloride Accordi... This work presents a detailed analysis of various industr...

There’s other routes to #vinylchloride too chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-...

How Is PVC Made, Anyway? The process for making PVC (polyvinyl chloride) is a myst...

Ok here’s another graphic from TeknorApex https://www.teknorapex.com/the-pvc-production-process #vinylchloride

How #vinylchloride made — #plasticpollution #eastpalenstine 2/2

This is dated (1941) — and obvi crooked — but shows one historical route to #vinylchloride and #pvc plastics via coal to acetylene (also @andresdelcas can see link to Minamata plastics). Similar branched products tree for crude to naphtha or nat gas to ethane (see next)

#Vinylchloride monomer a HUGE issue for labor/plastics/petrochemical workers in the 1970s, as OSHA came online. HUGE. #envhist Here, great piece from Late Lessons for Early Warnings monograph:...

I wrote re: Union Carbide's vinyl plastics, #vinylchloride R&D late 1920s/30s for @Orion_Magazine -- hard to break into the market. All Carbide docs from WV, PA archives listed in sep bibliography #envhist #plasticpollution ...

Mossville Environmental Action Now Working together to achieve environmental health justice

Also to help connect dots to longtime resistance to #vinylchloride production - see: Mossville (LA) Env Action: https://meannow.wordpress.com + 2 films re: Mossville, VC & PVC: @MossvilleDoc (When Great Trees Fall), also @judithhelfand 's #BlueVinyl #plasticpollution #platicstreaty

The Pirates of Illiopolis - Orion Magazine Why your kitchen floor may pose a threat to national secu...

More about wider context of #vinylchloride and PVC plastics? There's also this essay from Dr.
@SSteingraber1 -- ran in @Orion_Magazine
-- The Pirates of Illiopolis.
orionmagazine.org/article/the-pirate-of-il... #plasticpollution #EastPalestine #dioxins #envhist

This one goes way. back -- pub'd in 1969 by the late British plastics historian Morris Kauffman -- but useful again on the development of #vinylchloride and #PVC plastics (mostly in UK, less so than in US) -- based on his diss work. But helpful:...

🚨🚨🚨Ok, here's the train manifest of rail cars involved in #EastPalestine derailment -- released by EPA (authored by Norfolk Southern) -- h/t friends in #envhist (wink, wink) who helped me track this down. #vinylchloride #plasticpollution...

This one goes way. back -- pub'd in 1969 by the late British plastics historian Morris Kauffman -- but useful again on the development of #vinylchloride and #PVC plastics (mostly in UK, less so than in US) -- based on his diss work. But helpful:...

More about wider context of #vinylchloride and PVC plastics? There's also this essay from Dr. @SSteingraber1 -- ran in @Orion_Magazine -- The Pirates of Illiopolis.
orionmagazine.org/article/the-pirate-of-il... #plasticpollution #EastPalestine #dioxins #envhist

Also to help connect dots to longtime resistance to #vinylchloride production -- see: Mossville (LA) Env Action: https://meannow.wordpress.com/ + 2 films re: Mossville, VC & PVC: @MossvilleDoc (When Great Trees Fall), also @judithhelfand's #BlueVinyl #plasticpollution #platicstreaty