The Biden administration says it could soon launch a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic smoke following the fiery train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
Thank you for talking some damn sense. When everybody got all up in arms about the specific PFOA that was found in the open air water treatment facility in Little Hocking, Ohio from the DuPont Washington Works Teflon factory, the only thing that got changed was DuPont paid to convert the water treatment facility to a closed air one and they replaced C8 with C6, which is arguably a worse chemical about which less is known.
We can’t regulate out these kinds of chemicals one by one. It’s the same problem they were having trying to regulate synthetic cathinones (“bath salts”) - you ban one specific chemical and people just change the formula slightly to come up with a new technically legal version again.
We need to regulate the manufactured products that require these chemicals as part of the process.
Thank you for talking some damn sense. When everybody got all up in arms about the specific PFOA that was found in the open air water treatment facility in Little Hocking, Ohio from the DuPont Washington Works Teflon factory, the only thing that got changed was DuPont paid to convert the water treatment facility to a closed air one and they replaced C8 with C6, which is arguably a worse chemical about which less is known.
We can’t regulate out these kinds of chemicals one by one. It’s the same problem they were having trying to regulate synthetic cathinones (“bath salts”) - you ban one specific chemical and people just change the formula slightly to come up with a new technically legal version again.
We need to regulate the manufactured products that require these chemicals as part of the process.