Funding announced for long-term health studies into East Palestine train derailment
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Funding announced for long-term health studies into East Palestine train derailment
On Thursday, the National Institutes of Health said it will fund a five-year, $10 million effort to monitor any long-term health impacts from the derailment. It happened on Feb. 3, 2023, when a Norfolk Southern train with about 50 cars, including 10 carrying hazardous materials, derailed in a fiery crash. In April, Norfolk Southern, along with the companies that owned the railcars and made the chemicals inside, agreed to pay a $600 million class-action settlement.
Vice President JD Vance and United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are pushing for a new health study into the East Palestine, Ohio, toxic train derailment.
On Thursday, the National Institutes of Health said it will fund a five-year, $10 million effort to monitor any long-term health impacts from the derailment.
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It happened on Feb. 3, 2023, when a Norfolk Southern train with about 50 cars, including 10 carrying hazardous materials, derailed in a fiery crash.
The derailment left toxic smoke filling the town in northeast Ohio, with part of the town being evacuated.
Emergency responders vented and burned vinyl chloride from five rail cars to keep them from exploding.
In April, Norfolk Southern, along with the companies that owned the railcars and made the chemicals inside, agreed to pay a $600 million class-action settlement.
Vance, a Middletown native, was an Ohio senator when the train cars carrying hazardous materials derailed.
Source: https://www.wlwt.com/article/east-palestine-train-derailment-vance-funding-study-health/65118294