Pedro Gonzalez exposes how political forces ignored looming threats that led to the Norfolk Southern 32N disaster in Feb 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio, and the safety breakdowns that contributed to the derailment and hazardous chemical spill.
“The cars that derailed carried hazardous chemicals, including vinyl chloride, a toxic and flammable chemical used to make polyvinyl chloride or PVC that is extremely carcinogenic, ” Gonzalez tweeted. “Five of the cars that derailed contained a combined 115,580 gallons of vinyl chloride.”
Pedro Gonzalez is a senior writer at Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture and a senior fellow at the American Principles Project. He is also the recipient of the Haggerty-Richardson Fellowship at the Conservative Partnership Institute and the Lincoln Fellowship at the Claremont Institute. Follow him at https://twitter.com/emeriticus/ and read his posts at https://contra.substack.com/
