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Workers sound alarm over proposed Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern deal and its risks to jobs, prices and powerA proposed mega-merger of two of the largest railroad companies in the US will hurt jobs, raise costs for consumers and increase the risk o…
President pledged to get cleanup job done and pushed for protective measures as protesters held ‘anti-Biden’ rallyJoe Biden on Friday surveyed the federal cleanup in East Palestine, Ohio, more than a year after an explosive fire from a derailed train c…
Isaiah Wartman and two others ordered to pay restitution over role in fraudulent fund claiming to help East Palestine victimsThe manager of the 2020 campaign that launched the far-right politician Marjorie Taylor Greene to Congress has been ordered to …
Federal and state officials say the air, water and soil is safe – but locals in East Palestine are still suffering damaging symptomsIn the days after a fiery February train derailment that likely poisoned the environment in East Palestine, Ohio with a …
It remains an open question whether the derailment that shattered life in East Palestine will become a catalyst for actionCongress responded to the fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio earlier this year with bipartisan alarm, holding a flurry of hear…
NTSB holds rare field hearing in East Palestine, Ohio, focused on crucial decision to release and burn toxic vinyl chlorideThe fire chiefs whose departments were the first on scene of February’s fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio agree that firefig…
Lawsuit reportedly seeks damages for alleged Clean Water Act violations following crash of train carrying hazardous materialsThe US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against freight train giant Norfolk Southern over its 3 February train derailm…
EPA’s response to the derailment has drawn intense criticism from East Palestine residents and public health expertsThe US Environmental Protection Agency’s internal watchdog division is opening an investigation into the handling of the East Palestine …
Test relies on visual inspection of ash to then check soil for toxins, which is ‘unlikely to give a complete picture’ of contaminationA plan to test for toxic dioxins near the site of a February train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, is flawed and unlike…
EPA scientists assessed a dioxin cancer risks threshold in 2010, but a federal cleanup is only triggered at far higher levelsNewly released data shows soil in the Ohio town of East Palestine – scene of a recent catastrophic train crash and chemical spi…