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East Palestine families living in limbo months after fires
By: Tammy Webber | Associated Press
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — 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… Read More
Norfolk Southern’s CEO takes questions from Ohio Senators about the toxic East Palestine derailment
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The CEO of Norfolk Southern, which has seen five trains derail in Ohio since October was at the Statehouse Tuesday. Norfolk Southern CEO Alan… Read More
Norfolk Southern’s CEO set to testify in the Ohio Senate about East Palestine train derailment
By: Samantha Hendrickson | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Norfolk Southern’s CEO is set to testify before an Ohio Senate rail safety panel Tuesday, more than two months after a fiery train derailment including hazardous… Read More
The Justice Department adds to suits against Norfolk Southern over the Ohio derailment
By: Juliana Kim | NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Norfolk Southern over the major train derailment that occurred in East Palestine, Ohio, last month. The suit, filed Thursday… Read More
Ohio’s Senate OKs a transportation budget with rail safety rules
By: Samantha Hendrickson | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio senators reacting to the East Palestine train derailment proposed state oversight of wayside detectors that can spot railway defects, among other safety provisions, in a… Read More
Bipartisan support emerges for the Senate’s railroad safety bill
By: Stephen R. Groves | AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan consensus that Congress should act to toughen regulations on railroad safety emerged Wednesday as senators heard fresh testimony on the fiery hazardous train derailment last… Read More
The EPA tells states not to block waste from the East Palestine toxic train derailment
By: John Seewer | AP
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday ordered states to stop blocking contaminated waste from a fiery train derailment in Ohio from being sent to hazardous waste storage… Read More
Ohio sues Norfolk Southern over February’s toxic train derailment in East Palestine
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The state of Ohio is suing Norfolk Southern over the toxic train derailment last month in East Palestine. It’s a move that was largely… Read More
DeWine is frustrated at contaminated soil in East Palestine, as states with storage sites reject it
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The cleanup at the toxic train derailment site in East Palestine last month has stalled because Ohio is having trouble finding sites to accept… Read More
Norfolk Southern CEO says they are ‘deeply sorry’ as senators ready probe
By: Josh Funk | Stephen Groves | AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A top railroad CEO plans to tell Congress he is “deeply sorry” for last month’s fiery train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border as the Senate launches what is likely… Read More
National Transportation Safety Board opens probe into rail operator Norfolk Southern
By: Josh Funk | John Seewer | AP
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal investigators on Tuesday announced a probe into rail operator Norfolk Southern following a fiery derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border in February and several other accidents, including… Read More
Angry East Palestine residents confront Norfolk Southern over health fears
By: Josh Funk | John Seewer | AP
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Residents who say they’re still suffering from illnesses nearly a month after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in Ohio confronted the railroad’s operator Thursday at a town… Read More
Ohio’s U.S. senators ready a rail safety bill after the fiery crash in East Palestine
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Railroads like the one involved in last month’s fiery crash and toxic chemical release in Ohio would be subject to a series of new federal safety regulations and… Read More
Contaminated waste shipments from East Palestine derailment are set to resume
By: Associated Press
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Shipment of contaminated waste from the site of a fiery train derailment earlier this month in eastern Ohio near the Pennsylvania state line will resume Monday to two approved… Read More
The Ohio Senate sets a hearing on the toxic train derailment to hear from state officials
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Republican leader of the Ohio Senate says a hearing will be held on Wednesday on the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, to… Read More
NTSB releases preliminary report on East Palestine derailment that led to toxic chemical spill
By: PBS Newshour
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (NewsHour) — Federal investigators with the NTSB say the crew of the train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, tried to slow and stop the train after… Read More
A doctor near East Palestine, Ohio, details the main thing he’s watching for now
By: Lauren Hodges | NPR
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (NPR) — Health concerns are lingering in East Palestine, Ohio, after a train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed on February 3. Residents were temporarily evacuated from the area… Read More
EPA officials take charge of the cleanup in toxic East Palestine train derailment
By: John Seewer | Michael Rubinkam | AP
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) —EPA regulators on Tuesday took charge of the cleanup from the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment and chemical burn and ordered Norfolk Southern to foot the… Read More
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg urges safety changes after the fiery East Palestine derailment
By: Josh Funk | AP
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wants the nation’s freight railroads to immediately act to improve safety while regulators try to strengthen safety rules in the wake of… Read More
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg warns Norfolk Southern to support East Palestine
By: Josh Boak | AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg sent a letter Sunday to the CEO of Norfolk Southern, warning that the freight rail company must “demonstrate unequivocal support for the people”… Read More
Upset residents in East Palestine seek answers over train derailment
By: Patrick Orsagos | AP
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Residents of the Ohio village upended by a freight train derailment packed a school gym on Wednesday to seek answers about whether they were safe… Read More
Ohio officials say air quality in East Palestine is fine but not to drink the water
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — State health, safety and environmental officials said the air quality in and around East Palestine is what it was before authorities conducted a controlled… Read More
The train derailment in Ohio prompts a West Virginia water utility to take precautions
By: Associated Press
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia water utility is enhancing its water treatment process as a precaution following the derailment of a train hauling chemicals that later sent up a toxic… Read More
Wary residents return home after toxic train derailment in East Palestine
By: Patrick Orsagos | John Seewer | AP
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Hours after being told she could go home for the first time since a train derailment involving hazardous chemicals and later sent up a toxic plume near… Read More
Officials say the air near Ohio train derailment is safe for residents to return home
By: Associated Press
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Evacuated residents can return to the Ohio village where crews burned toxic chemicals after a train derailment five days ago near the Pennsylvania state line… Read More