Posted on 03/15/2023 6:12:17 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed a 58-count civil lawsuit in federal court today seeking to hold Norfolk Southern financially responsible for the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine that caused the release of over 1 million gallons of hazardous chemicals, “recklessly endangering” both the health of area residents and Ohio’s natural resources.
(Excerpt) Read more at ohioattorneygeneral.gov ...
But it might be interesting if Biden's DOJ sides with Norfolk Southern.....
Did anyone see the video of this train wreck?
Some truck essentially crossed in front of the train and stopped with it’s load right across the tracks.
It was a giant piece of metal like a bridge truss.
Was that what caused the derailment?
It looks deliberate!
That’s a different one.
Yes,I'm too lazy to research his party affiliation!
Not sure he is as squishy as Ohio Governor DeWine.
This is pretty much pro forma - it will act to get all the facts out in the open, and enable Ohio to put the screws to Norfolk Southern, making them fulfill their promise to pay for the cleanup.
The people I still feel for are the farmers down wind in Pennsylvania. I don't see much if any effort from PA state authorities to help them. No reports of how contaminated their lands are. Nobody's going to risk buying their hay crops, for starters. They're a small and almost invisible constituency, and probably also Trump voters, so the Democrat governor can safely ignore them. And it's looking like he will.
This is a highly respectable attorney’s take on it.
Gross negligence by the RR’s employees in the locomotive’s cab caused the wreck. A surveillance camera located about 20 miles upstream from the wreck caught a picture of the train with huge flames emerging from the failed wheel bearing that eventually self-destructed, causing the derailment. The car with the failed bearing was about 1,400 feet back from the locomotive, making the flames easy to see on that clear, dark night if somebody in the cab had simply looked. At the 47 mph, the train’s speed when it passed the surveilance camera, the crew had about 25.5 minutes to stop the train, if any of them had been looking.
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