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

Residents of East Palestine grapple with mixed safety messages two weeks after leak of hazardous chemicals from train

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.