The chief executive of one of the country’s biggest railways is preparing to inform a Senate committee he is “deeply sorry” for the intense derailment last month on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border
WASHINGTON — A top railway CEO strategies to inform Congress he is “deeply sorry” for last month’s intense train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border as the Senate launches what is mostlikely to be the veryfirst in a series of hearings about train security and the Biden administration’s action to the catastrophe.
The Norfolk Southern crash didn’t hurt anybody, however state and regional authorities chose to release and burn harmful vinyl chloride from 5 tanker vehicles, triggering the evacuation of half of the approximately 5,000 homeowners of East Palestine, Ohio.
Scenes of rippling smoke above the town, alongwith protest from locals that they were still suffering from healthproblems, have turned top-level attention to railway security and how hazardous products are transferred.
“I am deeply sorry for the effect this derailment has had on the individuals of East Palestine and