Norfolk Southern has agreed to a $600 million settlement to resolve class action lawsuits filed after a freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio spilling more than a million pounds of highly toxic chemicals into the community.
Four plaintiffs claimed that Bayer’s Roundup weedkiller caused injuries, including cancer, and a Missouri jury awarded them $1.56 billion. This decision might increase investor pressure on the German pharmaceutical and agricultural chemicals corporation to alter its legal approach.
The recent train derailment in Ohio continues to wreak havoc on residents in the area. One America’s Stephanie Myers has the latest on the situation.
Authorities have been telling residents of the area around East Palestine, Ohio, that it is safe for them to return home now, over ten days after the derailment.
Residents in northeastern Ohio who live close to the location of a derailed train have been told to evacuate as authorities get ready to unleash poisonous chemicals in a “controlled release.”