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E. Palestine Train Derailment: Implications for Ohio River Valley / Apr. 22 in East Palestine

Date

Apr 22, 2025

Time

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Venue

Main Street Theater

Organizer

Battle of Homestead Foundation, Food and Water Watch, Breathe Project, and The Izaak Walton League of America

TOXICOLOGIST Dr. George Thompson speaks Wed. Apr. 23 at 7:00 p.m. on what toxic chemicals were released at the Feb. 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio and what the implications are for Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania … past, present, future.

Dr. Thompson will be joined by Marilyn Leistner, former mayor of Times Beach, Missouri, the site of one of America’s worst environmental disasters in the 1980s.

Presented by Battle of Homestead FoundationBreathe ProjectFood & Water Watch and Izaak Walton League.

LocationColumbiana Arts Theater, 5 N. Main St. Columbiana OH 44408

Free admission but please register here at Eventbrite.

*** Dr. Thompson and Mayor Leistner are also speaking Apr. 23, 2025 in Homestead, Pennsylvania.

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