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No idea who that is.

Interview is with Scott Smith, and dude has put himself in the cross-hairs by refusing to back down from the truth.

Have all the chickens died yet? If yes, have mass starvation and death followed? Is it time to swoop in and pick up all that now free land for cheap? Asking for a Hungarian friend with last name starting with an S.

If you watch the video, they've actually done the "cleanup" ass backwards. The soil is super contaminated at this point, and they're stirring it up, into the air, for residents to breathe.

A federal judge on Wednesday approved a $600 million class-action settlement Wednesday that Norfolk Southern railroad offered to everyone who lived within 20 miles (32 kilometers) of last year's disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

Judge Benita Pearson gave the deal final approval after a hearing where the lawyers who negotiated it with the railroad argued that residents overwhelmingly supported it, attorneys for the residents and railroad spokesperson Heather Garcia told The Associated Press. Roughly 55,000 claims were filed. Only 370 households and 47 businesses opted out.
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The judge's approval clears the way for payments to start going out quickly. The lawyers had previously said they hoped to get the first checks in the mail before the end of the year.

As part of the settlement, any aid residents received from the railroad will be deducted from their final payments. Wallace and others who had to relocate for an extended period while the railroad paid for hotels or rental homes won't get anything.

Anyone who lived within 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) of the derailment can get up to $70,000 per household for property damage plus up to $25,000 per person for health problems. The payments drop off the farther people lived from the derailment down to as little as a few hundred dollars at the outer edges.
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Another promise, kept. Local NBC affiliate WLWT-5 Cincinatti ran a story on Monday headlined, “VP Vance, Ohio leaders visit East Palestine train derailment on 2-year anniversary.” We never forgot you. It’s just that our arrival was held up by a famous Cabbage.

The fact that Vice President Vance traveled to East Palestine during the first three weeks of the new Administration tells us everything we need to know about their excellent priorities.

Joe Biden did not visit the environmental disaster site for over a year, and without measurable effect.

Stand by for help.

May 29, 2025 / 06:59 PM CDT
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (NewsNation) — Two years after the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine and the subsequent toxic plume of smoke that devastated the area, a lawsuit against the transport company alleges a conspiracy to deny health care to those impacted.

Tara Hicks, Christa Graves and Lonnie Miller are among the 793 East Palestine residents involved in the litigation against Norfolk Southern and more than 50 other defendants, including state and local agencies, involved in the investigation and cleanup.

The lawsuit alleges a conspiracy to deny health care on behalf of Vanguard, Blackrock, Mercy Health and Quest.

“We’ve been lied to from the beginning,” said Hicks. “They’ve said everything is fine when we know that that’s not the case. And now we’re finding out for a fact that we were right. We’ve been poisoned.”

The lawsuit cites the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for “failure to ensure proper public health response, testing, and medical support for the affected residents of East Palestine.”

It also alleges the CDC “negligently instructed health professionals and testing facilities not to test for dioxins and other toxic chemicals denying residents accurate diagnosis and critical medical care.”

“Just tell us the truth,” said Miller. “We’re all adults. We can handle the truth. What were we exposed to? I want accountability. I want justice for my family.”

They say they were told that a letter was sent out, instructing health care officials to disregard their concerns.

Heard the mayor, and a bunch of other local officials have all gotten their payoffs. Now they just need to do their job and shut up all the citizens whining about cancer and lung failure.