March 21, 2023 | EPA, Headlines, Railroad Safety
(Source: Trains Magazine, March 17, 2023) The Federal Railroad Administration has issued a safety bulletin asking railroads to review with employees the dangers of pushing and shoving moves at highway grade crossings. Full story: Trains Magazine
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 10, 2023 | Congressional Hearing, East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines, NS
(Source: The Guardian, March 9, 2023) Norfolk Southern’s decision to call for the burning of five derailed train cars in East Palestine, Ohio, was “jaw-dropping” and a consequence of poor communication by the railroad, a local emergency management official told a...
March 3, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines, NS, NTSB
(Source: Freight Waves, March 2, 2023) The National Transportation Safety Board “is looking closely” at how aluminum protective housing covers on three tank cars carrying vinyl chloride performed after the Feb. 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train near East...
March 3, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines, NS, NTSB
(Source: Associated Press, March 3, 2023) 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 forum, demanding to know whether they’d be...
March 3, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, March 2, 2023) Sherrod Brown and J.D. Vance, the U.S. senators from Ohio, sent a letter to the state’s environmental protection agency expressing concern that dioxins may have been released when some of the chemicals in the damaged railcars...
March 1, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines, NS
(Source: The Hill, February 28, 2023) Ohio residents who filed a lawsuit against Norfolk Southern over the derailment of a train carrying hazardous materials through East Palestine urged a judge on Monday to block the company from destroying evidence related to the...
March 1, 2023 | East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines, NS
(Source: Freight Waves, February 27, 2023) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has told Norfolk Southern where to dispose of waste from the site of the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, in part because of concerns elsewhere about having it...
February 16, 2023 | Derailment, East Palestine-NS, EPA, Headlines, NS
(Source: Bloomberg, February 15, 2023) Nearly two weeks after a train carrying carcinogenic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, the extent of the damage to the nearby community is still unclear. Railroads face a traffic backlog and operator Norfolk Southern...
