Judge approves $600M settlement for residents near fiery train derailment
A federal judge has approved a $600 million class-action settlement involving last year's disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
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A federal judge has approved a $600 million class-action settlement involving last year's disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
Lawyers argue the agreement should be approved later this month.
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The National Transportation Safety Board's daylong hearing on what caused the disastrous East Palestine train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border last year gave the community, railroads, and policymakers plenty to think about.
The NTSB confirmed that a trackside detector failed to detect accurate elevated temperatures in a railcar bearing that was on fire 20 miles away from where it derailed.
The federal government agreed to a modest $15 million fine for Norfolk Southern over the East Palestine train derailment.
Norfolk Southern has reached an agreement to settle a class action lawsuit over the hazardous train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
Norfolk Southern has reached an agreement to settle a class action lawsuit over the hazardous train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
A federal judge has ruled that Norfolk Southern alone will be responsible for paying for the cleanup.
Federal investigators say they will determine the cause of last year's fiery Norfolk Southern derailment in eastern Ohio at a hearing in East Palestine this June 25.
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The site no longer smells of chemicals from the fire and controversial controlled burn that followed, but the effects still linger.
Railroad officials announced the change this week as they reiterated their long-term commitment to helping the town of East Palestine, Ohio, and the surrounding area near the Pennsylvania border recover.
The costs related to the East Palestine derailment continue to grow to reach $966 million for Norfolk Southern, but the railroad's service is improving and its insurance companies have started to pay their share of the cost of the crash in eastern Ohio early this year.
he railroad industry has been in the spotlight ever since the February derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
Norfolk Southern believes a software defect — not a hacker — was the cause of the widespread computer outage that forced the railroad to park all of its trains for most of Monday.
Norfolk Southern railroad is recovering from a "hardware-related technology outage" that disrupted train traffic across its network Monday, but there may be lingering effects for at least a couple of weeks.
The company agreed to improve conditions for those working on the train derailment cleanup.
The U.S. Department of Labor, Norfolk Southern, and Teamsters agreed to improving conditions for workers in East Palestine.
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.
The office will be across the street from the company's historic train depot.
Congress responded to the fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio earlier this year with bipartisan alarm at railroad crashes causing potential disasters.
A minor coal train derailment in Virginia in early July prompted Norfolk Southern to rethink the way it responds to problems with overheating bearings.
Additional charges related to the Ohio train derailment, combined with a drop in shipments, more than halved the company's profits.
$1 million is going to Darlington Township in Beaver County and Lawrence County for community relief from Norfolk Southern.
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