Great, first gas stoves now they're gonna come for our grills nextIt was a "controlled burn" in the sense that they did it on purpose, supposedly because the temperature of the tankers were getting too high and they were afraid of it exploding on it's own. The train derailed on a Friday and was on fire from that point through Monday afternoon when they did the "controlled burn" and caused their own explosion of sorts. I agree, between Friday and Monday they should have been able to come up with a better plan that burning it.
The EPA was asked to test for dioxins by J.D. Vance and Sherrod Brown (Ohio Senators), but the EPA says it's not necessary. Here's an exert from the below article: "We did receive a letter from Sen. Brown and Sen. Vance. Our toxicologists are taking a look. Unfortunately, we don’t have any baseline information about the levels of dioxins which are produced also by wildfires, by backyard grilling, by a host of other things,” Shore said. Lester says he has no knowledge of backyard grilling producing a dangerous amount of dioxin."
EPA not testing for dioxins, scientist calls reason ‘lame’