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It’s been eight months since a Norfolk Southern train derailed in East Palestine. Ever since the derailment, and the burn off of vinyl chloride in five tanker cars, some residents have chosen to live in hotels, miles away, and they’re not ready to go back home.
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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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Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance said the Environmental Protection Agency and Norfolk Southern need to pick up the pace in cleaning up East Palestine. Meanwhile, residents in Darlington Township are demanding the ability to provide input on how more than half a million dollars in community relief money is spent.
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The Biden administration says it could soon launch a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic black smoke following the fiery train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is fining Norfolk Southern nearly $50,000 for workplace safety violations during the chemical cleanup at the site of its East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment.
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During an online symposium discussing the incident, organizations and activists discussed the community's response, public officials' promises about health and safety and environmental implications.
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Environmental and community groups are calling on the EPA to ban vinyl chloride, a chemical used to make PVC pipes and many other consumer products. It’s also the chemical vented from five derailed train cars in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this year.
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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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The railroad industry has sued to block a new minimum crew-size requirement that Ohio imposed after a fiery train derailment in East Palestine in February. Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed the new rule in March as part of the state's nearly $13.5 billion state transportation budget. It mandated a two-person crew for freight trains.