Accidents involving the toxic chemical spilled in East Palestine, Ohio, last year have occurred more than once a week since 2010, according to a report published Tuesday by Earthjustice and the nonprofit Beyond Plastics. Vinyl chloride is a hazardous substance widely used in the production of plastics. Researchers with the firm Material Research L3C determined that manufacturing of the chemical in the U.S. reached an all-time high of 18.6 billion pounds in 2021, more than three times that of 1974. Since 2010, at least 966 chemical incidents involving the substance have occurred, an average of one every 5.3 days. Meanwhile, there have been 29 occasions since 1968 in which rail cars
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