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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

What the Biden administration has – and hasn’t – done in response to the Ohio train derailment

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The Biden administration has faced increasing scrutiny in the wake of the Ohio train derailment, as locals question "where’s Pete" and East Palestine’s mayor calls the president’s Ukraine visit a "slap in the face."

Norfolk Southern was forced to vent and burn the train’s load of vinyl chloride, a hazardous material used in the manufacturing of certain plastics, leaving East Palestine residents worried about their health and the longterm effects it might have on their small community.

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