March 15, 2023 | 2-man Crews, Headlines, Legislation, Railroad Safety
(Source: Progressive Railroading, March 14, 2023) President Joe Biden’s proposed fiscal-year 2024 budget released last week calls for over $1 billion in rail safety improvements, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Meanwhile, the U.S. Conference...
March 15, 2023 | Derailment, Headlines, UP
(Source: Reuters, March 15, 2023) Thirteen train cars carrying automobiles derailed yesterday, March 13, at Union Pacific’s rail yard in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Full story: Wyoming News Now
March 14, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS
(Source: Associated Press, March 11, 2023) Heather Bable speaks rapidly, recalling the terror of the night when a train loaded with hazardous chemicals derailed less than a half-mile from her home in East Palestine, Ohio. She heard an earthshaking boom and, from her...
March 14, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS
(Source: Iowa Capital Dispatch, March 11, 2023) Businesses, left to their own devices, will pursue their own self-interests, denying the evidence of detrimental impacts and fighting against regulations requiring pneumatic brakes or adding stronger tank cars on trains...
March 14, 2023 | DOL, Headlines
(Source: The Guardian, March 12, 2023) Julie Su has come a long way since she first made headlines in 1995 when she, then just 26 years old, was lead lawyer for 72 Thai workers who were essentially kept in slavery, toiling 18 hours a day at a sweatshop just outside...
March 14, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines, NS
(Source: The Times Leader, March 14, 2023) As cleanup efforts from the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment continue, Ohio Sen. JD Vance returned to East Palestine on Monday to visit the derailment site and meet with local officials and residents who are growing...
March 14, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines, NS
(Source: River Valley Organizing press release, March 13, 2023) Today, River Valley Organizing and more than 100 groups from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and across the country sent a joint letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan and...
March 14, 2023 | Derailment, Headlines, NS
(Source: Television station WRIC, March 13, 2024) National rail giant Norfolk Southern will pay just $27,300 to Virginia after a derailment in 2020 dumped over 1,300 tons of coal into the Roanoke River. Environmental groups objected, arguing that the railroad could...
March 14, 2023 | Derailment, Headlines, UP
(Source: Television station KWCH, March 12, 2023) MCPHERSON, Kan. — A Union Pacific train derailed in McPherson Sunday morning, starting a small grass fire and leaking denatured alcohol in the area, McPherson County Communications said Sunday. The derailment happened...
March 14, 2023 | Derailment, Headlines, UP
(Source: Associated Press, March 14, 2023) Union Pacific officials believe that a broken wheel likely caused this weekend’s derailment that spilled denatured alcohol inside a Kansas refinery. Full story: Associated Press
