Ohio residents signed 2023 train derailment releases without seeing tests that found carcinogens

Ohio residents signed 2023 train derailment releases without seeing tests that found carcinogens

Previously undisclosed environmental testing tied to the 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, is prompting scrutiny of both the disaster's aftermath and the settlement process that followed, including whether residents gave up legal claims without seeing the evidence collected on their behalf. Class-action attorneys had hired industrial hygienist Stephen Petty after the derailment and the subsequent vinyl chloride burn.  Petty said the…