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Tom Perkins in East Palestine, Ohio

‘We just need answers’: distrust grows in Ohio town after toxic train derailment

Man cleaning floor of car wash wearing mask at night.
Residents have received contradictory information as to how to clean their homes. Photograph: Michael Swensen/Getty Images

During his Thursday visit to the site of a fiery train derailment that may have poisoned a small eastern Ohio town with a range of highly toxic chemicals, the Environmental Protection Agency chief, Michael Regan, told residents: “All families need to know that they are safe.”

But Regan’s words, along with those from the Ohio governor Mike DeWine’s administration and Norfolk Southern officials, have been of little comfort to Jami Cozza.

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