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Lessons from the train disaster in Ohio.

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A train went off the rails in the appropriately named East Palestine in Ohio. As the news story broke, terrifying images flashed up on our screens. A train on fire some 20 miles before it folded up like matchsticks. Billowing clouds of thick black smoke blackening the air.

And then we discovered the train carried several unknown chemical entities. Allegedly no placards were posted identifying the chemicals being transported. It’s still unclear exactly what was on that train.

We know it’s ‘a variety of contaminants and carcinogens’. And we know they literally burned at least 5 rail cars worth of vinyl chloride in what they called a ‘controlled release’.

Ohio crews conduct a 'controlled release' of toxic chemicals from derailed train cars

Whatever spilled on that railway was something they could not leave where it spilled, yet it was something they would not physically remove.

Why?