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 black smoke following the ...

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry creates and updates toxicological profiles for hazardous substances. The profiles provide an overview of substances’ adverse health effect ...

In 1974, the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned the use of vinyl chloride in aerosols. It is still used primarily to produce polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, one of the most widely produced plastics ...

Vinyl chloride – the chemical in several of the train cars that derailed and burned in East Palestine, Ohio, in February 2023 – can wreak havoc on the human liver. It has been shown to cause liver ...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Thursday that vinyl chloride would be among five chemicals to begin the process for risk evaluation prioritization under the Toxic Substances Control ...

Experts called by the US National Transportation Safety Board, or NTSB, to testify about the February train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, said at a hearing Thursday that tank cars containing ...

As Virginia continues to grow and modernize their infrastructure, the need for safe, reliable water systems is more urgent than ever. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ongoing review of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration ...