East Palestine, Ohio Train Derailment
Latest Update, April 2025
EPA’s April newsletter includes updates on recent cleanup milestones like the east end excavations and the next stream assessment. The newsletter also includes a detailed response timeline and highlights state and federally funded mental health and mindfulness services provided by local agencies at the East Palestine Resiliency Center, which is operated by the Columbiana County Mental Health and Recovery Services Board. For questions on newsletter topics, or the cleanup in general, please contact EPA’s information line at 330-775-6517 or the response email at r5_eastpalestine@epa.gov.
Read the most recent monthly East Palestine newsletter, released on Feb 18, 2025. View previous editions of the newsletters on this webpage.
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Background
At about 8:55 PM ET on February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, about a quarter-mile west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania state line.
Twenty of the affected cars contained hazardous materials, including vinyl chloride, ethylene glycol, ethylhexyl acrylate, butyl acrylate and isobutylene.
More Background InformationUnified Command:
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Columbiana County Emergency Management Agency
- Village of East Palestine
- Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
- Norfolk Southern Corporation
Cooperating and Assisting Agencies include:
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Ohio Emergency Management Agency
- Ohio Department of Health
- Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission
- Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
- Beaver County Emergency Management Agency
- Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency
- Pennsylvania Department of Health
- Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
- Ohio Department of Agriculture
- West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
