President Joe Biden has ordered federal agencies to hold Norfolk Southern accountable for a train derailment in Ohio. However, he has not declared a disaster, as officials say the situation… Read More
Tragic Accident Reveals Safety Oversight Gaps
In a recent report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), details emerged about the unfortunate incident involving a Norfolk Southe… Read More
Norfolk Southern announced Monday that it will compensate homeowners in East Palestine, Ohio, for property value reduction following the Feb. 3 train derailment. Nearly 2,000 residents in Ea… Read More
The Biden administration is considering launching a formal evaluation of the risks posed by vinyl chloride, a cancer-causing chemical that burned in a train derailment in Ohio. The Environme… Read More
The chair of the National Transportation Safety Board said a new federal rule requiring the installation of inward- and outward-facing image recording devices on all passenger trains should… Read More
Train accidents are a serious safety issue that can cause devastating consequences. Unfortunately, these events occur more often than you may think… Read More
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is holding out hope that Congress can walk back from the brink of a looming government shutdown.
“It can’t be. We ca… Read More
For a great magazine/media company such as TIME, reflecting on the present is just not enough. So, in 2019, TIME magazine introduced the TIME100 Next list. The listing highlights 100 em… Read More
Sen. Mitt Romney said he couldn’t “disrespect someone more” than his GOP colleague, JD Vance.
Despite that disrespect, the two have notably worked together on two key piec… Read More
When St. John the Baptist Parish residents woke up on Friday, August 25, they saw a plume of black smoke above the Marathon Petroleum refinery between Reserve and Garyville, Louisiana. Mara… Read More
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg isn’t doing enough to address rail and aviation safety, according to a letter to Buttiegieg from Republicans on the U.S. House Committee on Ove… Read More
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Extreme weather events are growing more common, while an increasingly globalized world means disasters on one side of the planet reverb… Read More
The sticking point between railroads and rail worker unions over a federal hotline for reporting safety concerns is how to ensure rail employees don’t misuse the system to avoid disci… Read More
A rail union group wants to know why the Class I railroads haven’t yet adopted a federal program in which railroad employees may anonymously report safety-related incidents.
The Tr… Read More
Avoiding Environmental Panic
It’s turning into a scary summer. Arizona is baking even more than usual. The Canadian forests burned and provided some North American cities with an or… Read More
ATLANTA (AP) — Norfolk Southern’s CEO has spoken often of safety and better service since he took the job over a year ago, but it’s safety that has dominated discussions a… Read More