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okdiluted t1_j8waadx wrote

here's a pretty helpful twitter thread about what the actual contents of the spill were and what to monitor water quality for, if you're really concerned.

also contains a fairly bleak reminder that hazmat freight accidents happen like… insanely often in the USA and just aren't reported on very much. a huge hazmat truck just crashed like two days ago and dumped dioxins all over a watershed area! this has just been happening for ages bc our infrastructure is a mess! shockingly, despite this accident, rail is still our best bet for transporting hazmats… when the track is actually maintained and the workers aren't being screwed over (this east palestine disaster is pretty much a direct result of the union rail workers being completely screwed after they just tried to organize all of those rail strikes—a situation like this was exactly the sort of accident they were organizing to avoid, because they know the conditions Norfolk Southern et. al. forces them to operate under are not adequate or safe).

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