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An appeal delays the $600 million class action settlement payments in the fiery East Palestine derailment
By: Josh Funk | AP
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Settlement checks related to Norfolk Southern’s disastrous 2023 derailment could be delayed up to two years now because an appeal of a federal judge’s decision last week to approve the $600… Read More
A judge has approved the $600 million settlement for residents near the fiery East Palestine derailment
By: Josh Funk | AP
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday approved a $600 million class-action settlement Wednesday that Norfolk Southern railroad offered to everyone who lived within 20 miles of… Read More
EPA data make it hard to know the extent of the contamination from last year’s East Palestine train derailment
By: Josh Funk | AP
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — The way the Environmental Protection Agency has reported its test results since a Norfolk Southern train derailed and officials released and burned chemicals that spewed a toxic cloud… Read More
Fewer than 400 households reject $600 million East Palestine train derailment settlement
By: Josh Funk | AP
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Very few people who live near the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment opted out of a $600 million class action settlement despite residents’ reservations about whether the deal… Read More
Norfolk Southern railroad says its CEO Alan Shaw is under investigation for alleged ethical lapses
By: Josh Funk | AP
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ATLANTA (AP) — Norfolk Southern’s CEO Alan Shaw is under investigation for potential ethical lapses, the railroad confirmed Monday. A spokeswoman for the Atlanta-based railroad that is one of North America’s… Read More
Federal judge denies a motion to extend East Palestine class action settlement deadline
By: Abigail Bottar | Ideastream Public Media | Josh Funk | AP
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (Ideastream/AP) — A request from some East Palestine residents to extend the amount of time they have to opt in to the $600 million class action settlement has… Read More
EPA watchdog investigating delays in how the agency used sensor plane after fiery Ohio derailment
By: Josh Funk | AP
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The EPA’s Inspector General is investigating why the agency didn’t get its specialized plane loaded with advanced sensors into the air over East Palestine until four days after the disastrous… Read More
Freight railroads ask courts to throw out new rule requiring two-person crews on trains
By: Josh Funk | AP
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Four railroads have asked federal appeals courts to throw out a new rule that would require two-person train crews in most circumstances, saying the mandate is arbitrary, capricious and an… Read More
Lawyers want East Palestine residents to wait for the details of a $600 million derailment settlement
By: Josh Funk | AP
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — The lawyers who negotiated a $600 million settlement with Norfolk Southern over that railroad’s disastrous 2023 derailment in East Palestine, Ohio want residents to talk… Read More
Norfolk Southern agrees to pay $600M in a settlement related to the East Palestine train derailment
By: Josh Funk | AP
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement related to a fiery train derailment in February 2023 in eastern Ohio…. Read More
EPA didn’t declare a public health emergency after the fiery East Palestine derailment
By: Josh Funk | AP
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — The aftermath of last year’s fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio doesn’t qualify as a public health emergency because widespread health problems and ongoing chemical… Read More
The NTSB testifies that train cars didn’t need to be blown open to release chemicals after the derailment in East Palestine
By: Josh Funk | AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The decision to blow open five tank cars and burn the toxic chemical inside them after a freight train derailed in Eastern Ohio last year wasn’t justified,… Read More
Biden praises ‘Herculean efforts’ to rebuild at the site of last February’s East Palestine train derailment
By: Josh Boak | Darlene Superville | AP
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday surveyed the federal cleanup in East Palestine, Ohio, more than a year after an explosive fire from a derailed train… Read More
Biden is going to the site of last year’s train derailment in East Palestine. Republicans say he took too long
By: Josh Boak | AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) — For over a year, President Joe Biden waited for what the White House said was the right moment to visit East Palestine, facing criticism that he was… Read More
The NTSB will release a cause for the fiery Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine at its June hearing
By: Josh Funk | AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) — 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… Read More
Railroads say they’re making safety changes to reduce derailments after fiery Ohio crash
By: Josh Funk | AP
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The changes railroads announced after last year’s fiery crash in East Palestine, Ohio, haven’t yet made a major difference, statistics show, and reforms have stalled in… Read More
Biden will visit East Palestine a year after the community was devastated by a train derailment
By: Darlene Superville | AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will visit East Palestine, the eastern Ohio community that was devastated by a fiery train derailment in February 2023 that displaced thousands of residents… Read More
One year after the derailment, East Palestine residents still question the health of the town
By: Abigail Bottar | ideastream
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (Ideastream Public Media) — Saturday, Feb. 3 marks one year since a train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in East Palestine. The accident upended life in the small… Read More
The EPA begins a formal review of vinyl chloride, the toxic chemical that burned in an Ohio train derailment
By: Matthew Daly | AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has initiated a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic black smoke following a fiery… Read More
Norfolk Southern will end relocation aid right after the one-year anniversary of its fiery Ohio derailment
By: Josh Funk | AP
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Norfolk Southern railroad plans to stop paying relocation aid to people displaced by last February’s fiery derailment in eastern Ohio right after the one-year anniversary of the crash…. Read More
An Ohio business owner sues Norfolk Southern for the February derailment that closed his companies
By: Josh Funk | AP
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A business owner with companies near where a Norfolk Southern train derailed and caught fire in February has sued the railroad for $500 million,… Read More
Biden says Norfolk Southern must be held accountable for East Palestine derailment but won’t declare a disaster
By: Josh Funk | AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ordered federal agencies to continue holding Norfolk Southern accountable for its February derailment in Ohio and appoint a FEMA official to oversee the recovery in East Palestine, but he… Read More
Norfolk Southern announces the details of a plan to pay for lost home values after East Palestine derailment
By: Josh Funk | AP
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Norfolk Southern announced new details Monday about its plan to compensate East Palestine residents for lost home values since the fiery derailment disrupted life in the eastern Ohio town… Read More
Ohio town searches for answers months after toxic train derailment
By: PBS Newshour
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NewsHour) — In February, a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in the Ohio village of East Palestine, leading officials to burn the toxic freight to avoid… Read More
The EPA weighs a formal review of vinyl chloride, the toxic chemical that burned in the East Palestine train derailment
By: Matthew Daly | AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it could soon launch a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic… Read More