A lawsuit alleging for the first time that people died because of the disastrous 2023 East Palestine train derailment was announced on Monday’s second anniversary of the toxic crash near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border amid a flurry of new litigation.
On Monday, Vice President JD Vance visited the small community he used to represent as a senator and toured the cleanup with President Donald Trump’s newly confirmed head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and other dignitaries. He told a gathering of first responders and local elected officials that the town