August 15, 2024 | East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, August 14, 2024) The creeks around East Palestine, Ohio, were so badly contaminated by last year’s disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment that some workers became sick during the cleanup. The findings were not released to the public last...
July 18, 2024 | East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, July 17, 2024) 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 Norfolk Southern derailment last...
May 16, 2024 | East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines
(Source: Morning Journal, May 16, 2024) The Region 5 Environmental Protection Agency pushed back at a recent Associated Press report that accuses the agency of not fully utilizing an advanced aircraft that could have collected crucial air monitoring and data during...
May 15, 2024 | East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, May 14, 2024) The U.S. government has a specialized plane loaded with advanced sensors that officials brag is always ready to deploy within an hour of any kind of chemical disaster. But the plane didn’t fly over eastern Ohio until four days...
April 3, 2024 | East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, April 3, 2024) 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 exposures haven’t been documented, federal officials...
February 2, 2024 | East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, February 2, 2024) Daily life largely returned to normal for most of the nearly 5,000 residents of East Palestine, Ohio, months after a Norfolk Southern train derailed and spilled a cocktail of hazardous chemicals that caught fire a year ago,...
February 2, 2024 | East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, February 1, 2024) Residents of eastern Ohio can now get an up-close view in newly released videos of the twin toxic towers of fire that forced them from their homes last February after officials decided to blow open five tank cars filled...
February 2, 2024 | East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, January 31, 2024) President Joe Biden will visit the eastern Ohio community that was devastated by a fiery train derailment almost one year ago, accepting an invitation from the East Palestine mayor to see firsthand how the cleanup of...
December 21, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, December 14, 2023) 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 train derailment earlier this...
November 13, 2023 | EPA, Headlines
(Source: Trains.com, November 10, 2023) The policy change, which goes into effect on Dec. 8, means the California Air Resources Board’s controversial locomotive emissions regulations will not run afoul of federal preemption of state and local regulations. Full story:...
