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In September, a federal judge finally approved a $600 million settlement for East Palestine, Ohio, residents after a devastating train derailment. Yet twenty months after the disaster in East Palestine and a decade since the Toledo water crisis, residents throughout the state continue to endure systemic neglect and harbor lingering distrust toward the state and federal government, as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)