Biden to visit East Palestine one year after train derailment

President Joe Biden will travel to East Palestine, Ohio, next month after promising to visit the community devastated by an environmental disaster caused by a toxic train derailment a year ago.

Biden was widely criticized for traveling to Ukraine when residents of the village, near Ohio’s border with Pennsylvania, were forced to relocate after the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern freight train derailment, in which some of the 50-plus cars, several of which were carrying hazardous materials, burned for days after the crash.