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.
A British Airways pilot collapsed and died shortly before he was due to captain a packed jet.
In a big setback for the centre, the Supreme Court today dismissed its petition seeking more compensation from Union Carbide for the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy. The gas leak that killed over 3,000 people is among the world’s worst industrial disasters.
Pam Kline welcomed me through the front door of her home in East Palestine, Ohio, on a wet afternoon when we did not know if it was safe to be in the rain. About a week prior to our meeting, a train derailed in this small slice of the heartland,
