November 8, 2023 | DOT, East Palestine-NS, Headlines
(Source: Lancaster Online, November 6, 2023) Attorneys General from Pennsylvania and 12 other states signed a letter last month to the U.S. Department of Transportation supporting a proposed federal rule to require railroads to make information about hazardous...
November 2, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, Headlines
(Source: Progressive Railroading, October 31, 2023) A coalition of 13 attorneys general is calling on federal regulators to adopt a federal rule that would require railroads to make available information on hazardous material loads to emergency responders. Full story:...
November 1, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, October 26, 2023) The removal of contaminated soil from the eastern Ohio site of February’s fiery Norfolk Southern derailment is expected to be completed sometime this weekend, although the larger cleanup effort isn’t over. Full story:...
October 26, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS, Quarterly Income
(Source: Associated Press, October 25, 2023) Norfolk Southern said its third-quarter 2023 profit of $478 million was half of last year’s $958 million. Without costs related to its derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, NS said it would have made $601 million. The...
October 25, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines, NS
(Source: Reuters, October 18, 2023) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday ordered Norfolk Southern Corp to carry out additional cleanup in East Palestine, Ohio, following the Feb. 3 derailment of a company-operated freight train. Full story:...
October 13, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, October 12, 2023) Passenger railroads nationwide will now be required to install video recorders inside their locomotives, but the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday the new rule is flawed because it excludes...
October 5, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, Headlines
(Source: National Public Radio, October 3, 2023) Candy Kiehl has lived in the same home in East Palestine her entire life. The house began as her grandparents’ home, then her parents’ and eventually hers. But for the last eight months, Kiehl has lived in a Best...
August 10, 2023 | DOL, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS, Railroad Safety
(Source: OSHA/ Department of Labor press release, August 9, 2023) After several U.S. Department of Labor workplace safety and health investigations at the East Palestine, Ohio, site where a Norfolk Southern Corp. train derailed in February 2023, the train’s...
August 10, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines, NS, Railroad Safety
(Source: Freight Waves, August 9, 2023) Improving communication and training as well as fostering trust between the company and its workers are some of the areas where Norfolk Southern could do better, according to a Wednesday report from the Federal Railroad...
August 10, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, FRA, Headlines, NS, Railroad Safety
(Source: Associated Press, August 9, 2023) Norfolk Southern made improvements after one of its trains derailed, caught fire and spilled toxic chemicals near an Ohio town, but the company is nowhere near the “gold standard for safety” it is striving to be, according to...
