Guest Post by Adam Gaertner
250 million people live east of the Mississippi. Two million gallons of vinyl chloride might have something to say about that.
Up to two and a half million gallons of one of the most toxic substances known to man have been released into the air, water and soil of the Eastern Seaboard, and are presently making their way south and east. Acid rain, which in this case is hydrochloric acid mixed with concentrated, unburned vinyl chloride, has (so far) been reported in every direction:
- West: 400 miles west to Lafayette (probably further)
- North: 1200 miles north up to Durham, Canada;
- East: 1200 miles east to NYC and Boston today more
- South: 800 miles southwest to Kentucky so far
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