East Palestine train disaster has nearby towns questioning their own safety The Upper Ohio River Valley has been layered in industrial pollution for centuries, and residents are fed up.

Unlike the circle of the official one-by-two-mile protective radius, the plume map depicts an oblong, irregular shape of potential contamination extending southeast into Pennsylvania.

The way the Environmental Protection Agency has reported its test results since the disastrous East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment last year makes it hard for residents to know the full extent ...

CLAIM: Everyone living in the Ohio River basin, as shown in the yellow area of a map, should be concerned about the safety of their drinking water after the derailment of a train in East Palestine, ...

The US EPA has released results of its soil sampling in the East Palestine, Ohio area, and tells residents that preliminary findings look good, showing little soil contamination from the Feb. 3 ...

Map showing area of impact of derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, for the first week of the accident. Red indicators show the number of precipitation analyte concentrations above the 99th percentile.

Weeks after the derailment, government officials discovered that air in the East Palestine Municipal Building, about 0.7 miles away from the derailment site, was also contaminated.

FILE - A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern trains Monday, Feb. 6, 2023.

A tractor-trailer hauling 40,000 pounds of contaminated soil from the cleanup site of the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment overturned on a highway on Monday afternoon, officials said.. The ...

The research is welcome news, but as residents complain of ‘scary’ diagnoses, the question of healthcare compensation remains unanswered.