Chemicals released during the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 3, 2023, including vinyl chloride, spread to 16 states and possibly Canada, as revealed by a study published in Environmental Research Letters. Toxic chemicals released during fires following the Norfolk Southern train derailment in Ohio last
Anthrax-contaminated wastewater from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland was spilled into public waterways in Maryland. Unsterilized laboratory wastewater from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, spewed out the top of a rusty 50,000-gallon outdoor holding
A fire, which Castro County Sheriff Sal Rivera said resulted from an explosion that spread to the building where the cows are housed, burned alive 18,000 cows in Texas.
According to the Plains-Paradise Rural Fire District, a train carrying a large quantity of beer derailed in Paradise, Montana.
According to the CDC, seven members of the 15-person Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry team became ill while in the Ohio town of East Palestine.
According to officials, a 70-car train derailed in North Dakota, spilling hazardous materials.
Local media outlet WYPR obtained a letter from Contractor Clean Harbors of Baltimore Inc, which stated that a ‘significant’ amount of toxic waste from an Ohio train derailment will be heading to Baltimore.
Newly released data shows soil in the Ohio town of East Palestine – scene of a recent catastrophic train crash and chemical spill – contains dioxin levels hundreds of times greater than the exposure threshold above which Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scientists in 2010 found poses cancer risks.
Crews removed contaminated soil from the Swinomish Reservation in Skagit County where two locomotives derailed and spilled an estimated 3,100 gallons of diesel fuel on a berm near a bay just after midnight Thursday.