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  • Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows Trump Calling East Palestine Train Derailment an 'Environmental Terror Attack'

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    Did a video shared widely in May 2025 authentically show President Donald Trump describing the 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio as "the largest environmental terror attack in world history" and "an inside job"? No, that's not true: Trump never made such remarks. The clip in question contained fake audio and edited mouth movements, both likely the products of…

    • May 16, 2025
    • by: Lead Stories Staff
    Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows Trump Calling East Palestine Train Derailment an 'Environmental Terror Attack' Never Said It
  • Fact Check: Plane Crash Victims Were NOT Headed To East Palestine, Ohio, To Investigate Train Derailment

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    Were the victims of an Arkansas plane crash on their way to East Palestine, Ohio, to test the water, soil and air after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed there? No, that's not true: The five victims, employees of CTEH -- an environmental consulting firm -- were headed to a metals plant in Bedford, Ohio, according to a CTEH spokesman.…

    • Mar 8, 2023
    • by: Dana Ford
    Fact Check: Plane Crash Victims Were NOT Headed To East Palestine, Ohio, To Investigate Train Derailment Bedford Bound
  • Fact Check: Pennsylvania Dog Did NOT 'Test Positive' For Vinyl Chloride Exposure Following Ohio Train Derailment

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    Did a dog in Pennsylvania test positive for exposure to vinyl chloride, a chemical that officials have confirmed has leaked from the train derailment site near East Palestine, Ohio? No, that's not true: In an interview with Lead Stories, the veterinarian who treated the dog confirmed that, as of February 23, 2023, no test is available to determine whether a…

    • Feb 24, 2023
    • by: Madison Dapcevich
    Fact Check: Pennsylvania Dog Did NOT 'Test Positive' For Vinyl Chloride Exposure Following Ohio Train Derailment No Such Test
  • Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Raise 'Lethality' Bar For Vinyl Chloride Just Before Ohio Derailment

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    Did the Centers for Disease Control change the level of exposure considered lethal for vinyl chloride from 100 parts per million to 100,000 parts per million shortly before the February 3, 2023 train derailment and vinyl chloride spill near East Palestine, Ohio? Was this change the first such revision "since 1987"? No, that's not true: Vinyl chloride's toxicity profile on…

    • Feb 21, 2023
    • by: Uliana Malashenko
    Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Raise 'Lethality' Bar For Vinyl Chloride Just Before Ohio Derailment Misread Data
  • Fact Check: Ohio Train Derailment Did NOT Cause 'Flesh-Eating Rain' In Nebraska -- No Reports, NOAA Says

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    Is flesh-eating rain coming down in Nebraska as a result of the toxic chemical spill from the February 3, 2023, train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio? No, that's not true: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told Lead Stories they have received no reports about flesh-eating rain in connection with the spill. A Nebraska climatologist told Lead Stories that, given…

    • Feb 21, 2023
    • by: Marlo Lee
    Fact Check: Ohio Train Derailment Did NOT Cause 'Flesh-Eating Rain' In Nebraska -- No Reports, NOAA Says NOAA Says No
  • Fact Check: Stew Peters' Graphic Does NOT Document Trajectory Of East Palestine, Ohio 'Deadly Plume,' NOAA's 'HYSPLIT' Website NOT Closed To Public

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    Did the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shut down access to a website that showed a real map of "how far the deadly plume from East Palestine, OH had traveled by Feb. 8," as podcast host Stew Peters claimed? No, that's not true: As of February 17, 2023, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Hysplit Model website, which displays…

    • Feb 17, 2023
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: Stew Peters' Graphic Does NOT Document Trajectory Of East Palestine, Ohio 'Deadly Plume,' NOAA's 'HYSPLIT' Website NOT Closed To Public Simulation
  • Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Dead Birds In Kentucky After Ohio Train Derailment Disaster

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    Does a photograph show a dozen birds that died in Kentucky from complications attributable to the February 2023 derailment of a train transporting toxic chemicals through neighboring Ohio? No, that's not true: While the photo is authentic, it was taken in April 2018 in Little Rock, Arkansas, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission confirmed to Lead Stories. The birds appeared…

    • Feb 17, 2023
    • by: Madison Dapcevich
    Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Dead Birds In Kentucky After Ohio Train Derailment Disaster Arkansas 2018
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