Officials don’t know what the long-term health impacts will be from the East Palestine derailment
Residents told to see their doctors. "We may not know how to get rid of vinyl chloride from the body, but we know how to treat those cancers.”
East Palestine
Many questions still remain one year after the Norfolk Southern train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 3, 2023.
The Allegheny Front has been covering this disaster since it first happened along with our partners at 90.5 WESA in Pittsburgh and Ideastream Public Media in Cleveland.
Our coverage of the anniversary is supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism, with special thanks to Pete Carey, retired Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist with the Mercury News California, for his advice and guidance.
