![]() It was better attended than it was last year." Just (three) weeks ago, we hosted an Easter egg hunt in the City Park, which is a really big deal in East Palestine. ![]() "You're starting to see it on the ground. That's how I know we're going to do the right things," he said during the meeting. "We've got 19,700 employees that really care deeply about our response in East Palestine and I do too. Shaw, a frequent visitor to East Palestine, told our board that community members are happy with what Norfolk Southern has done so far including making donations to the East Palestine schools and excavating soil from under the train tracks. He also gave testimony about the derailment last week at the Ohio Statehouse. Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw reiterated his pledge 'to do the right thing' in East Palestine repeatedly during a meeting with the Columbus Dispatch Editorial Board and USA TODAY Network Ohio reporters and editors. ![]() Opinion: East Palestine after dark: 'Could you suspend your fear and stay put?'Īccording to the Association of American Railroads, "freight railroad crew sizes have been reduced from five to three to two people pursuant to collective bargaining agreements with labor unions under the procedures outlined in the Railway Labor Act." So has the call to strengthen regulations to prevent other tragedies as trains get bigger and longer and the size of the crews on board manning them diminish. The nation's attention has waned, but the needs of the people impacted by the derailment persists. Residents were sickened and more than 43,000 fish and other animals were killed. Far fewer camera crews and reporters can be found in East Palestine since the days after a Norfolk Southern freight train stretching nearly 2 miles derailed and 100,000 gallons of hazardous chemicals it transported were burned.īlack plumes filled the air.
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