Trump’s administrator launches the study on the effects of the derail of the toxic train from eastern Palestine

At the request of Vice-President JD Vance, the Trump administration is launching a new initiative to study the long-term health consequences of local residents in East Palestine, Ohio, after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed and overturned its content.

The TRUMP administration sets up $ 10 million for a five -year initiative that will use, among other things, “longitudinal epidemiological research” to better understand the effects on short and long -term health of exposure to dangerous chemicals, including vinyl chloride, butyle acrylate, ethylene glycol and benzene.

The initiative will also use public health monitoring and monitoring and newly established communication channels between researchers, civil servants and community stakeholders to support the initiative and develop solutions.

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Portions of a freight train in the south of Norfolk which derailed in eastern Palestine, Ohio, on February 4, 2023. (Photo / gene J. Puskar, file)

“There was a terrible train accident, then there was a controlled burn of toxic chemicals that entered the atmosphere,” said Vance in a video announcement published on social networks, alongside the HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya.

“What happened then is that people have become very worried. I went to East Palestine on several occasions, and they are very worried about which are the long-term impacts of these chemicals in water, in the air. What effect does it have on their children and grandchildren after five years, 10 years, 15 years of exhibition?”

Vance pointed out on the old Biden administration, saying that it “refused to do anything” to study the long -term health effects of the train accident for residents of East Palestine.

Last month, communications discovered by a request from the Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) would have shown that the Biden administration was aware of the serious health risks posed by the toxic spill despite the public that there was no evidence of significant chemical contamination.

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Former President Joe Biden was castigated by criticisms for not having done enough to ensure that there was no sustainable health effect for residents of eastern Palestine, Ohio, after the small town was faced with a derail of toxic train in February 2023. (Getty Images)

“These documents confirm what residents of eastern Palestine feared: government representatives knew the serious health risks posed by derailment and controlled burns, but deliberately kept this information from the community,” said Lesley Pacey, environmental responsible for the project of government responsibility, who helped discover communications.

After the toxic spill in February 2023, the residents began to express fear after reporting headache, respiratory diseases and skin and eyes irritation.

In April 2024, Norfolk Southern, the company operating the train which overthrew chemicals in northeast Ohio, paid $ 600 million to settle a collective appeal filed on behalf of the residents of Eastern Palestine.

President Joe Biden goes around the site for the takeover of eastern Palestine on February 16, 2024, in eastern Palestine, Ohio. (AP photo / Andrew Harnik)

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“As a senator, it was incredibly frustrating to look at the Biden administration to refuse to examine the potentially dangerous health impacts on the inhabitants of East Palestine after the derailment of the train,” added Vance. “I am proud that we finally have a new president who takes seriously the concerns of the people of the daily working class.”

According to Bhattacharya, research for the initiative should start this fall.