A Feb. 13 Facebook post (direct link, archived link) shows a screenshot of a tweet about the Feb. 3 Ohio train derailment.
"A massive death plume spanning multiple counties in Ohio is raining down hydrochloric acid onto people," reads the tweet, "because a bomb train carrying vinyl chloride was deliberately classified as non-hazardous to save Norfolk Southern money and regulatory inconveniences."
The Facebook post generated over 100 shares in less than a week, while the original tweet amassed over 100,000 likes.
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Environmental experts said that there is no "massive death plume" raining hydrochloric acid on Ohio residents following the Feb. 3 trail derailment.
A train operated by Norfolk Southern was traveling to Pennsylvania on Feb. 3 when 38 rail cars derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, igniting a fire and damaging an additional 12 cars, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. At least 11 of the cars that derailed contained hazardous materials.
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