“If one positive thing can come out of the toxic train derailment in East Palestine — and I would argue nothing positive has come out of it so far — it is for the Biden administration to use their existing legal authority to start the process to ban vinyl chloride,″ said Judith Enck, a former regional EPA administrator and president of Beyond Plastics, an advocacy group that seeks to end plastic pollution.
EPA weighs formal review of vinyl chloride, the toxic chemical that burned in Ohio train derailment
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She also said that it relies too heavily on failed plastics recycling policies.
California sets nation's toughest plastics reduction rules
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