East Palestine train derailment

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After East Palestine derailment, efforts to improve railroad safety regulations creep along

By Sophie Young, Kent State NewsLab/Ideastream The train derailment in East Palestine in February was high-profile because of its environmental

By Sophia Lucente, Kent State NewsLab/Ideastream When a Norfolk Southern train derailed in East Palestine on Feb. 3, the village’s

By Sophie Young, Kent State NewsLab/Ideastream In February 2023, Hilary Flint was living with her grandmother in Enon Valley, Penn.,

By Grace Springer, Kent State NewsLab/Ideastream Jeff Drummond’s house was less than a football field away from the site where

By Mariah Alanskas, Kent State NewsLab/Ideastream About 20 minutes from East Palestine in Leetonia, Ohio, Norfolk Southern trains speed through

By Grace Springer/Kent State NewsLab Candy Kiehl has lived in the same home in East Palestine her entire life. The

By Sophie Young and Gavin Mitten The Ohio EPA is supervising the drilling of monitoring wells to test for chemicals

By Maggie Harris and Ben Weaver Melanie Montgomery and her husband, Steve, run Lamppost Farm in Columbiana, Ohio. The agricultural

Story by Gavin Mitten and Sophie Young In the weeks following the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, many

Story by Jacob Hansen and Ty Kohler Former President Donald Trump visited East Palestine on Feb. 22 to show his