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Uncertainty still clouds East Palestine on derailment anniversary
Despite a $600 million settlement, residents face delayed payouts amid allegations of misallocated funds and sealed health data, while Senate rail safety legislation stalls after bipartisan introduction.
- On the third anniversary, residents of East Palestine, Ohio, are still waiting for restitution from the $600 million settlement Norfolk Southern agreed to pay.
- A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed on Feb. 3, 2023, and three days later officials vented and burned five carloads of vinyl chloride, releasing toxic chemicals.
- Records show class-action lawyers took $180 million while Kroll, private-equity-backed claims administrator, allegedly misallocated over $17 million, delaying checks promised in 2024 to residents within a 20-mile radius.
- Sealed health-testing data collected by class-action experts remain inaccessible, while residents of East Palestine report ongoing illnesses and financial ruin three years after the derailment.
- Despite bipartisan backing, the Railway Safety Act remains stalled without a Senate floor vote after passing committee last year, Sen. John Fetterman, U.S. Senator, urged Congress to act on the bill.
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Today marks third anniversary of the East Palestine Derailment
Exactly three years after more than 30 cars of a Norfolk Southern train derailed in East Palestine, sending a toxic plume of smoke over the community and flooding local creeks with a cocktail of hazardous chemicals, the community is still recovering.
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