Posted on 03/30/2025 9:37:52 AM PDT by ransomnote
Norfolk Southern wants two other companies to help pay for the $600 million class-action settlement it agreed to over its disastrous 2023 train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and the toxic chemicals that were released and burned.
The railroad filed the motion that is set to go to trial starting Monday to force the railcar owner GATX and the chemical manufacturer OxyVinyls to share the cost of the settlement because Norfolk Southern believes those companies are partly responsible for what happened in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3, 2023.
This lawsuit won't change anything about how much money residents will receive from the settlement or any payments the village or anyone else is set to receive because those are all established in various settlement agreements. This case will only affect which company has to write the checks to pay for the class-action settlement.
Residents are still waiting to receive most of the money from the settlement because of pending appeals, although some payments have started to go out.
An assortment of chemicals spilled and caught fire after the train derailed in East Palestine. Three days later, officials blew open five tank cars filled with vinyl chloride because they feared those cars might explode, generating a massive black plume of smoke that spread over the town and forced evacuations.
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The residents impacted by this disaster are some of the Americans who come to mind every time I read that DOGE is cutting spending on LGBTQ+ programs in South America and similar social justice spending. If a Hawaii or Paradise California burn to the ground, the Democrat Regime says 'we don't have any money'. The January 7 Palisades and Eaton fires are exceptions because wealthy Biden donors live there, so Biden promised to pay for expenses for the first 180 days as he was, after all, formally leaving office. Otherwise the average American John Doe is left on his own. Of course in NC, aid was intentionally withheld - too many MAGA there. But if someone in Africa isn't receiving the respect, if not admiration, activists say they 'deserve' for being transexual, then the American 'NGO' has more than enough money to help. In fact, about 5 trillion dollars left the Treasury without anyone writing down to whom the money was paid, or for what purpose. But the people of Ohio, and North Carolina, were on the left's 'don't care' list.
Has anyone ever figured out why the info on vinyl chloride was edited a few days before the derailment? Or why they decided to burn it instead of draining it? Has anyone even looked into this?
That tells me who was really responsible.
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