...old Mick the corporate pet....

I worked as environmental manager dealing with toxic chemicals and hazardous waste in an industrial setting for 10 years..I had a shitlaod of certifications in environmental and safety..I was also was certified in the DOT shipment of these items by road and air. Let me tell you that these decisions are not made by the governor or the shipping company. There are very specific rules about who has to be notified and how the materials have to be managed. You don't just decide to release the chemicals. The EPA would have to be called as well as state run air quality and waste compliance. And where are the owners of the chemicals? From a legal standpoint the person who sent the shipment is ultimately liable for cleanup. The instant the materials are spilled they become hazardous waste. This will most likely become a superfund site.

Mike, you sound parched. Let me get you a drink of water.

Here is an NTSB accident report from a similar incident near Ft Knox in Kentucky in 1980. A train carrying several cars of vinyl chloride derailed and burned.

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/RAR8101.pdf

What Happened About 7:58 a.m., on July 26, 1980, 4 locomotive units and 17 cars, including 7 placarded tank cars containing hazardous materials, of Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company freight train No. 64 were derailed while moving at a calculated speed of about 35 mph around a 6 curve in Muldraugh, Kentucky. Two tank cars of vinyl chloride were punctured and their contents burned. Flames impinged two other tank cars of vinyl chloride, causing one to vent toxic fumes, but neither car ruptured. About 6,500 persons were evacuated from Muldraugh and the U.S. Army installation at Fort Knox. Four train crewmembers were injured during the derailment, and property damage was estimated at $1,348,394

Nothing was leaking , this was handled completely wrong.

From shitty Wikipedia. On vinyl chloride transport and storage. (Emphasis mine).

"Storage and transportation

Vinyl chloride is stored as a liquid. The accepted upper limit of safety as a health hazard is 500 ppm. Often, the storage containers for the product vinyl chloride are high capacity spheres. The spheres have an inside sphere and an outside sphere. Several inches of space separate the inside sphere from the outside sphere. The interstitial space between the spheres is purged with an inert gas such as nitrogen. As the nitrogen purge gas exits the interstitial space it passes through an analyzer that detects whether any vinyl chloride is leaking from the internal sphere. If vinyl chloride starts to leak from the internal sphere or if a fire is detected on the outside of the sphere then the contents of the sphere are automatically dumped into an emergency underground storage container. Containers used for handling vinyl chloride at atmospheric temperature are always under pressure. Inhibited vinyl chloride may be stored at normal atmospheric conditions in suitable pressure vessel. Uninhibited vinyl chloride may be stored either under refrigeration or at normal atmospheric temperature in the absence of air or sunlight but only for a duration of a few days. If for longer periods, regular checks should be made for the presence of polymers.[14]

Transporting VCM presents the same risks as transporting other flammable gases[citation needed] such as propane, butane (LPG) or natural gas (for which the same safety regulations apply). The equipment used for VCM transport is specially designed to be impact and corrosion resistant.[15]"

https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Vinyl_chloride

This just proves what a feckless RINO leader looks like. Audit his and his relatives bank accounts.