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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Ben Jealous

It shouldn’t take a fiery crash and toxic spill to push action on railroad safety

A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern trains on Feb. 6. (Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo)

People around East Palestine, Ohio, have been warned not to run their vacuum cleaners.

That was the reality two weeks after a train derailment in the village of about 4,700 people near the border with Pennsylvania, which damaged public health and the environment in ways that still aren’t fully known. 

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