In 1974, the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned the use of vinyl chloride in aerosols. It is still used primarily to produce polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, one of the most widely produced plastics ...

A Feb. 22 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of a woman's face and scribbled mathematical formulas. "Trying to understand why a train was carrying over 300,000 gallons of a ...

Following the February 2023 derailment of a train carrying—among other noxious chemicals—vinyl chloride, some attention is returning to the chemical, which is used only to create the ubiquitous ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has initiated a process to prioritize vinyl chloride and four other chemicals used in the manufacture and processing of plastics for risk evaluation. If ...

Vinyl chloride – the chemical in several of the train cars that derailed and burned in East Palestine, Ohio, in February 2023 – can wreak havoc on the human liver. It has been shown to cause liver ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency says it will look at five toxic compounds to see if they should be bumped to high-priority status under the Toxic Substances Control Act( TSCA). Environmental ...

Following a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, just over a month ago, authorities carried out a controlled release of the toxic vinyl chloride gas into the atmosphere to prevent a massive ...

Vinyl chloride — a toxic substance used to make plastic — was identified as a known human cancer-causing chemical 40 years ago, yet it has remained in widespread use. It is just now that the U.S.

The Biden administration has initiated a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic black smoke following a fiery train ...