13 Mar 2023 --- Environmental campaigners are calling for harsher measures against petrochemical corporations and their transport partners following the Ohio train derailment disaster, after a US Senate hearing last week in which Norfolk Southern – the company responsible – issued an apology and pledged a relief fund of US$21 million. Break Free from Plastics (BFFP) says the disaster, in which PP pellets ignited a fire during transport that released significant amounts of vinyl chloride – used to create plastic material PVC – into the environment, “will not be over,” regardless of cleanup efforts.
