Norfolk Southern Corporation announced on Tuesday it has reached a $600 million agreement to resolve a class action lawsuit related to the 2023 derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. The settlement comes in the wake of the Feb. 3, 2023 incident in which a Norfolk Southern Railway freight train carrying 151 cars derailed, spilling hazardous chemicals, […]
A ruling by a federal judge has determined that Railroad company Norfolk Southern alone will be liable for the cost of the clean-up following the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment in February last year. The decision came a day after the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) testified in a Senate hearing on […]
A controlled burn of five derailed tank cars in last year’s train crash in East Palestine, Ohio, could have been avoided, the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) testified at a Senate hearing on March 6. NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy was responding to questions from Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio ), in which she […]
Boisterous supporters of former President Donald Trump shouted, “One year too late” as President Joe Biden’s long motorcade arrived in downtown East Palestine on Feb. 16. It marked President Biden’s first visit to the eastern Ohio village that became a household name across the United States when a Norfolk Southern freight train carrying hazardous chemicals […]
President Joe Biden visited East Palestine, Ohio, on Friday, over a year after the Norfolk-Southern train derailment that resulted in the spilling of toxic chemicals through a large portion of the town. President Biden chastised the Norfolk-Southern train company in his speech, criticizing what he called an “act of greed” which he says led to […]
President Joe Biden on Friday traveled to East Palestine, Ohio, for the first time since the fiery derailment of a Norfolk Southern train a year ago released more than a million gallons of hazardous materials and pollutants. President Biden delivers remarks on how his administration is holding Norfolk Southern accountable for the derailment and is […]
Federal investigators say they will determine the cause of last year’s fiery Norfolk Southern derailment in eastern Ohio at a hearing in East Palestine this June. The National Transportation Safety Board announced Wednesday that it will hold the hearing at East Palestine High School on June 25 to approve the findings of its investigation. That […]
One year after a Norfolk Southern freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in East Palestine, President Joe Biden will make his first visit to the eastern Ohio village, according to a White House statement. President Biden will meet with residents affected by the fiery crash and “assess the progress that his administration has helped deliver […]
The Israel-Hamas war is revealing cracks within the Democratic Party poll after poll showing that young voters are dissatisfied with President Joe Biden’s handling of the war. A New York Times poll says voters trust former president Trump over Biden on this issue. Here’s the latest.
OMAHA, Neb.—Passenger railroads nationwide will now be required to install video recorders inside their locomotives, but the head of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Thursday the new rule is flawed because it excludes freight trains like the one that derailed and caught fire in eastern Ohio earlier this year. The Federal Railroad Administration […]
President Joe Biden ordered federal agencies to continue holding Norfolk Southern accountable for its February derailment in eastern Ohio and appoint a FEMA official to oversee East Palestine’s recovery, but he still stopped short of declaring a disaster. Biden issued the executive order Wednesday evening. Part of the order essentially directed the environmental, health and […]
GOP lawmakers have asked Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to provide information related to “a series of aviation and rail safety failures” that have recently taken place across the country. “These failures indicate a recent and disturbing pattern of failures at the Department” which puts the safety of Americans at risk, Republicans on the House Committee […]
White House Spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre insisted to a reporter at a press briefing on Sept. 5 that President Joe Biden will visit East Palestine, Ohio, despite recently saying he has not had time to do so—over 7 months after the devastating train derailment there on Feb. 3.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Monday urged President Joe Biden to declare a major disaster in response to the toxic train derailment that occurred in East Palestine in February. The incident resulted in the release of hazardous chemicals from several rail cars operated by Norfolk Southern and raised health concerns among local residents. DeWine emphasized […]
The National Transportation Safety Board held a hearing on Thursday and Friday to shed new light on the train derailment that left East Palestine, Ohio, residents demanding answers. A question that was brought up in the hearing was whether it was the right decision to vent and burn the hazardous chemicals inside the railcars.
OMAHA, Neb.—Firefighters who responded to February’s fiery train derailment in Ohio struggled to immediately identify the hazardous chemicals the train was hauling due to a lack of communication from the railroad, officials said Thursday. During a public hearing in East Palestine—where thousands of residents had to evacuate their homes because of the derailment—National Transportation Safety […]
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio—Jeff Drummond spends days and nights alone in a tiny room with fake wood paneling, two small beds and a microwave atop a mini refrigerator that serves as a nightstand—his pickup truck parked just outside the door at the roadside motel where he’s taken refuge since early February. Shelby Walker bounces from hotel […]
A truck carrying 40,000 pounds of contaminated soil from the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment clean-up site crashed in Columbiana County on Monday. According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the incident occurred around 1 p.m. on state Route 165 near Waterford Road, just north of East Palestine. Troopers arrived at the scene for a […]
Rep. Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), co-sponsor Rep. Emilia Sykes (D-Ohio), and other Ohio U.S. representatives introduced the Reducing Accidents in Locomotives (RAIL) Act at a March 30 press conference hours after a BNSF Railway train carrying ethanol derailed and caught fire in Raymond, Minnesota. Residents near the crash site were evacuated. No injuries were reported, and […]
Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw testified before the Senate Commerce Committee for the second time in two weeks. This time he responded to the committee’s push for stricter safety regulations on railroads after last month’s train derailment.
