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Railway Company President Norfolk SouthAlan Shaw, apologized this Thursday due to a train derailment from toxic products in East Palestine (Ohio, USA) and committed to “To finish work”
Railway Company President Norfolk SouthAlan Shaw, apologized this Thursday due to a train derailment from toxic products in East Palestine (Ohio, USA) and committed to “To finish work” in the area affected by the spill.
Show testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works explain about the accident that forced the eviction of the residents of the area.
After apologizing for the impact on residents, Shaw wanted to show his “personal commitment” “to do things right”“Norfolk South will finish the job,” he promised.
The executive assured that the company would be present “as long as it is necessary for help East Palestine prosper and rebuild.”
“We will be there today, tomorrow, in a year, five or ten,” Shaw repeated after being asked if he would compensate residents for possible long-term medical expenses.
The president of Northfolk Southern also promised “make the railroad saferand promised to make its security standards “the best in the business”.
On the other hand, he argued that studies have shown that “the air is safe to breathe and the water is safe to drink“, which was also confirmed during the hearing by the director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Ann Vogel.
Norfolk train, about 50 cars, transported toxic material in 11 of them and derailed on February 3 as it passed through East Palestine, a city of less than 5,000 people 60 kilometers from the industrial city of Pittsburgh and close to the Ohio-Pennsylvania border.
On the other hand, some senators, such as Democrats Sherrod Brown and Bob Casey, have stressed the need approve the Law on Safety in Railway Transport.
“You don’t need train derailed that elected officials put aside partisanship and work together for the benefit of the people we serve,” Brown said.
Although East Palestine is small and rather sparsely populated, the issue is being resolved used by Republicans to criticize the federal government for the consequences of what happened, despite the fact that the administration of President Joe Biden assures that there is no danger in the area.
Faced with this criticism, the US government announced that it would deploy team of doctors and toxicologists conduct a sanitary and epidemiological survey in the affected area.
Since the fires were extinguished on February 8, monitoring of the air and water environment has not been carried out.o Detected any level of health concern in the community due to the train crash.
(Information EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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