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The Guardian - US
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Tom Perkins

New study suggests health damage from exposure to Ohio toxic train spill

fire and smoke billow from a crashed freight train
Portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. Photograph: Gene J Puskar/AP

In the weeks after the East Palestine train wreck culminated in a towering fireball and chemical release in the small Ohio town, Jessica Boersma was seriously exposed to the stew of compounds emitted from the derailment site.

Boersma lives less than a quarter mile away, and, as a city council member, she had to spend significant time at the site coordinating with first responders.

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