Josh Funk | Associated Press
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Norfolk Southern announced new details Monday about its plan to compensate East Palestine residents for lost home values since the fiery derailment disrupted life in the eastern Ohio town in February.
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Regulators say Norfolk Southern has made improvements since a fiery Ohio derailment but still falls well short of being the “gold standard for safety” it is striving to be.
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A minor coal train derailment in Virginia in early July prompted Norfolk Southern to rethink the way it responds to problems with overheating bearings. But it's not clear why the railroad didn't make similar changes five months earlier after an overheating bearing caused the fiery Ohio derailment that prompted nationwide concerns about rail safety.
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The costs associated with Norfolk Southern's fiery February derailment in East Palestine have more than doubled to $803 million as the railroad works to clean up the mess and moves forward with all the related lawsuits.
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Norfolk Southern says the owner of the rail car that caused the fiery Ohio derailment in February failed to properly maintain it in the years before the crash.
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Spurred on by train derailments, some states crisscrossed by busy freight railroads aren’t waiting for federal action to improve safety. Instead, they're pursuing their own remedies amid questions about whether states even have that authority.
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During a Friday NTSB hearing on the East Palestine derailment, a union official testified inspections are happening less often and are not as thorough as in years past due to staff cuts, time constraints and regulatory loopholes.
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Officials say firefighters who responded to February’s fiery train derailment in Ohio struggled to immediately identify the hazardous chemicals the train was hauling due to poor communication from the railroad. The National Transportation Safety Board is holding a rare field hearing in East Palestine on the Norfolk Southern derailment.
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Investigators looking into the collapse of Pittsburgh's Fern Hollow Bridge want transportation officials nationwide to examine more than 10,000 other bridges with similar construction to ensure they don't have the same kind of corrosion.
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Norfolk Southern said it expects February's fiery Ohio derailment to cost it $387 million, but that total will likely increase over time.