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A tractor-trailer hauling 40,000 pounds of contaminated soil from the cleanup site of the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment overturned on a highway on Monday afternoon, officials said. The ...
EAST PALESTINE — Contaminants from last year’s Norfolks Southern train derailment and intention vent-and-burn traveled to 16 states, researchers at the University of Wisconsin reported in a ...
Since the derailment, cleanup crews have removed more than 176,000 tons of contaminated soil and the EPA has collected more than 45,000 air, water and soil samples around the community. But residents ...
“Robust testing under EPA and Ohio EPA guidance, oversight, and approval will ensure the soils around and within the ditches have no remaining contamination.” ...
“Robust testing under EPA and Ohio EPA guidance, oversight, and approval will ensure the soils around and within the ditches have no remaining contamination.” ...
Unlike the circle of the official one-by-two-mile protective radius, the plume map depicts an oblong, irregular shape of potential contamination extending southeast into Pennsylvania.
An interim report from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) says there’s no evidence of contamination in western Pennsylvania related to the East Palestine train derailment.
Nearly one year after a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, releasing toxic chemicals into the air and soil, the rail operator’s top executive returned to the scene ...
Economic Policy A year after East Palestine derailment, rail industry blocks new safety rules The nation’s largest rail operators — including Norfolk Southern, the freight railroad behind the ...
For months, the EPA has said that the tap water is clean, that the air is no longer contaminated and the soil is safe for farming. But despite their assurances, some people claim they’re still sick.
One year later, residents of East Palestine still face the impacts of the Norfolk Southern train derailment that leaked contaminants into the water and air.