News zum Sektor Chemie aus Palästina

 

Norfolk Southern reached an agreement with one of the two companies it has been trying to force to help pay for the $600 million class-action settlement it agreed to over its disastrous 2023 train derailment......

NTSB concludes flaming wheel bearing caused East Palestine derailment, vent and burn of chemicals was unnecessary...

Chemicals From East Palestine Train Disaster Spread To 16 States: Study Authored by Edward Carver via Common Dreams, Toxic chemicals released during fires following the Norfolk Southern train derailment in Ohio last year spread to 16 states and likely Canada, according to a study released Wednesday. The pollution, some of which came from the burning of vinyl chloride, a carcinogen, spread over 540,000 square miles, showing clearly that "the impacts of the fire were larger in scale and scope than the initial predictions," the authors of the study, published in Environmental Research Letters, found. NTSB/Handout via Xinhua Lead author David Gay, coordinator of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, said that he was very surprised by the way the chemicals had spread. "I didn't expect to see an impact this far out," he told The Washington Post. Gay said the results did not mean "death and destruction," as concentrations were low on an absolute scale—"not melting steel or eating paint o...