It has been five months since the small blue-collar town of East Palestine, Ohio, experienced the horrific train derailment that sent plumes of toxic thick black smoke into the air above. Life there came to a virtual standstill as residents and their children dealt with, and continue to deal with, a vast array of illnesses from headaches to nosebleeds and, even now, at times, a faint whiff of something in the air. Residents say they have not gotten much in the way of assistance from Norfolk Southern. CEO Alan Shaw could not bother to show up for a town hall meeting two weeks after the derailment and failed to show yet again at a subsequent town hall meeting on March 2nd. In the months since the disaster, Norfolk Southern seems to have moved on from the problems of East Palestine to something apparently more pressing. What could possibly be more pressing than peoples’ health?Read More
East Palestine Ohio Still Struggling Five Months Later While Norfolk Southern Focuses on ESG and DEI
