Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown is calling the program “another empty promise”, and Republican J.D. Vance described the plan as “a complete and total disaster.”

The railroad whose derailment resulted in a fiery chemical spill in East Palestine has announced that it has awarded another $3,638,000 to overhaul the village’s drinking water system.

Jean-Pierre responded, saying "The President will go to East Palestine. He promised that he would, and he will."

President Biden recently said he has not had the occasion to come to East Palestine.

"There is a lot going on here and I haven't been able to break. I figured I would go to East Palestine this week, but I was then reminded that I have to go around the world."

Some Republican members of Congress are planning a hearing next month in East Palestine to learn about progress in the cleanup following the February 3rd Norfolk Southern derailment, chemical spill, and fire.

The major freight railroads say a disagreement over whether they will be allowed to discipline some workers who use a government hotline to report safety concerns has kept them from following through on the promise they made back in March to join the program after a fiery Ohio derailment prompted calls for reforms.

The Biden administration says it could soon launch a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic smoke following the fiery train derailment in East Palestine.

Regulators say Norfolk Southern has made improvements since a fiery Ohio derailment but still falls well short of being the “gold standard for safety” it is striving to be.

A team from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland is inviting residents from East Palestine and nearby areas to take part in a research effort focused on understanding the effects of the Norfolk Southern train derailment, fire, and chemical spill.

Six months after the fiery derailment and chemical spill in East Palestine, first responders from another Valley community tested their preparedness plan for a railroad emergency.

Six months to the day that a fiery train went off the tracks in East Palestine, members of the community are gathering to talk about what the incident has done to their lives and businesses.

Congress responded to the fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio earlier this year with bipartisan alarm at railroad crashes causing potential disasters.

As we mark 6 months since the derailment in East Palestine, the Department of Transportation stresses the work its done to increase rail safety in the months since the derailment.

Almost six months after the East Palestine train disaster Norfolk Southern Railway has continued spending millions in clean up costs to do its part, and as part of an US EPA mandate, to help the village recover.

Norfolk Southern logged direct costs of $803 million resulting from the derailment, and says they lost up to $200 million in business, pushing the overall cost to around a billion dollars.

A couple of governments in Western Pennsylvania are receiving a total of $1 million from Norfolk Southern Railroad to help cover the costs caused by the February 3rd derailment in nearby East Palestine.

The study seeks to identify ways in which the derailment may have effected the health of nearby residents.

The ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology report found that some gases, including acrolein, reached levels that could be hazardous, but most gas levels dropped to safe levels after a few days.

The railroad industry has sued to block a new minimum crew-size requirement that Ohio imposed after a fiery train derailment in East Palestine in February.

Norfolk Southern says the owner of the rail car that caused the fiery Ohio derailment in February failed to properly maintain it in the years before the crash.

Earlier this week, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine formally petitioned President Biden to issue a Major Presidential Disaster Declaration regarding the Norfolk Southern train derailment and hazardous chemical release in East Palestine.

In a lawsuit against several companies who owned and shipped railcars involved in the February 3rd derailment, Norfolk Southern alleges that a pattern of negligent recordkeeping and false inspections should make those companies liable for damages.

Some residents tell 21 News it's a step in the right direction while others feel it's too late.

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 after one of his trains derailed and caught fire in February in Ohio.

RVO Organizer and East Palestine resident, Timothea Deeter says residents in the community simply want their children to enjoy the same peace, safety and security that they did growing up in the village.

The National Transportation Safety Board began the first day of a two-day field hearing Tuesday in East Palestine.

Federal regulators want first responders to a train derailment to know exactly what they are dealing with even before they reach the scene.

Dozens of entities are scheduled to testify.

People will have a chance Wednesday night to question the woman in charge of the federal agency leading the investigation into the February 3rd Norfolk Southern train derailment, chemical spill, and fire.

Norfolk Southern Railroad is opposing efforts by the federal government and the State of Ohio to recoup the costs of cleaning up hazardous materials left following the derailment of one of their trains in East Palestine.

Community members can attend to ask questions about public health, air testing, and any other areas of concern.

The reconstruction included a third zone of lesser soot concentration including Warren, Sharon, Niles, Austintown, Youngstown, Canfield, Boardman, Struthers, and Columbiana.

Officials say they plan to conduct safety investigations of all the major freight railroads over the next year.

The people of East Palestine will have a chance to meet some of the people who have been working to monitor health and safety in the village since the February 3rd Norfolk Southern train derailment.

FRA Administrator Amit Bose said that US Dept. of Transportation is closely monitoring high-hazardous flammable train routes and those routes with high volumes of hazardous materials, and that includes train overpasses in the Valley

According to Norfolk Southern representatives, community members may go to the center's new location at 191 East Rebecca Street in East Palestine to report losses due to the derailment. 

Pension funds invested in Norfolk Southern have filed a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that the railroad failed to disclose business strategies that led to an increased risk of derailments.

Months after the toxic train derailment and controlled burn in East Palestine, the community gathered to release a "list of demands" that they said to be done to bring their lives back to some sense of normalcy. One of the concerns on the top of the mind

Analysis of scientific data by Ohio State University shows plant materials from agricultural sites in the East Palestine area are not contaminated with semi-volatile organic compounds associated with the train derailment.

CEO Alan Shaw and East Palestine officials will break ground on the regional safety training center Thursday morning at 430 Park Avenue.