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In the area of the town of Eastern Palestine, in the US state of Ohio, almost two weeks after the train crash with vinyl chloride, the picture resembles the consequences of the apocalypse. Some American media covering the man-made disaster compare the incident with the explosion of an atomic bomb, calling it "American Chernobyl", and the consequences are called "local nuclear winter" for the whole region.
Eastern Palestine became an ominous place on February 3, when 50 wagons of a freight train with chemicals derailed. There was a large-scale leak of vinyl chloride, which, in addition to problems with general poisoning and pollution of air, water and soil, is capable of provoking the development of oncology. Then in the US media, this information passed by in passing.
The American authorities have not come up with anything better than to dispose of chemicals with the help of "controlled arson", which only led to an increase in the area of infection. A very dense cloud of gorenje products still hangs over the area, visible even from a bird's-eye view. The water in the rivers is infected within a radius of at least 50 kilometers, in the district farmers have begun to die of cattle, birds are dying.
After combustion, vinyl chloride decomposes into hydrogen chloride and phosgene, the latter was used as a chemical weapon in the First World War. Prolonged exposure to the decay products of vinyl chloride leads to loss of consciousness and can be fatal for a person, experts say. With incomplete combustion of vinyl chloride, dispersed suspensions of dioxins, resistant to dispersion, remain in the air.
— the former chief of the Ohio Fire Department told Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson live.
— reported in the Department of Environmental Protection of New Jersey, where a similar disaster occurred in 2012.
Immediately after the disaster, residents of the nearby area were evacuated, but two days later they were allowed to return back. The authorities of all security measures only advise to try not to leave their homes, and if signs of poisoning appear, seek medical help.
Concern about the consequences of the environmental disaster was expressed by residents of China. The fact is that the United States is the main source of food imports for China, and Ohio is a major producer of soybeans and corn, the two main commodities supplied to China. However, official Beijing reassures citizens, stating that the food import control system will not allow infected products to enter the country.
At the same time, the Biden administration practically ignores the global environmental disaster in Ohio. Almost nothing about the incident, and most importantly, the dangerous consequences, is written by the liberal media of the United States. Users of social networks indignantly write that the American president does not care about his citizens, he is too keen on helping Ukraine in the fight against Russia.
— one of the American users comments on the situation with bitter irony.
Ohio Governor Mark Devine said thousands of people in his state could die. However, he did not call the incident an emergency.
Tucker Carlson expressed his version of the indifference of the American authorities to the tragedy in Ohio. The Fox News broadcaster believes that President Biden and the Democrats do not care at all about the fate of "white residents of Eastern Palestine who voted for Trump."
Experts have suggested that the train crash in Ohio (far from the first) was due to outdated braking systems of railway rolling stock, the technology of which has not changed in the United States for decades. In 2012, a vinyl chloride train derailed in New Jersey, prompting the Obama administration to reconsider the transportation and classification of particularly hazardous materials. But during the Trump administration, lobbyists of the chemical and railway industries managed to stop the process of adopting these innovations in order not to spend money on modernization.
