What can be learnt from the response to the Ohio chemical spill?

The Environmental Protection Agency held the railroad company accountable, promptly disclosed information and directed the clean-up operation By: Liu Yiman, China Dialogue On the evening of 3 February 2023, a train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. At first, the town’s nearly 5,000 residents may not have been greatly concerned, given the frequency of such incidents on the ageing rail system. Three days later the railroad firm responsible, Norfolk Southern, decided to drain vinyl chloride from five of the derailed cars onto an unused lot and burn it off. They did this in order to prevent leakage and possible explosion of