Norfolk Southern Corp. can resume shipments of hazardous waste this week from the site of its freight train derailment in Ohio, a U.S. official said Sunday.
Federal officials ordered the railroad last week to pause waste removal at the site, saying they wanted to ensure that the safe disposal of spilled materials met Environmental Protection Agency approval. Materials already sent to facilities in Michigan and Texas were vetted, but those locations are no longer taking waste shipments, EPA regional administrator Debra Shore said Sunday.
Some liquid waste will now be disposed deep underground at an injection well in Vickery, Ohio, Shore told reporters in East Palestine, the town where the train derailed on Feb. 3. Solid waste will go to an incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio.
