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Ohio has filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern to make sure it pays for the cleanup and environmental damage caused by a fiery train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border last month

The state is alleging Norfolk Southern engaged in ‘operational negligence’

Firefighters are often "woefully under-equipped" to handle train accidents that emit hazardous materials. Most of those serious enough to cause evacuations happened near small towns.

The main U.S. railroad trade group has taken the rare step of warning railroads to take certain cars out of service because they could cause a derailment

Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw said he is “terribly sorry” for his company’s toxic derailment disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, in testimony Thursday before a U.S. Senate committee, while lawmakers called out the company for its safety practices and its lack of transparency after the wreck.

Local official tells panel of chaotic response Ohio derailment and operator’s chief executive makes first appearance before Congress

WASHINGTON — The head of Norfolk Southern Corp. pledged at a Senate hearing Thursday to fully restore environmental and economic conditions in the Ohio community where one of the company’s trains derailed last month, triggering a fire and public health concerns.

The incident follows two Norfolk Southern train derailments in Ohio.

Watch live as Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw testifies to the Senate on the Ohio train derailment.

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Chief executive Alan Shaw pledged at a Senate hearing to restore environmental and other conditions in East Palestine, Ohio.