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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

Why did a Norfolk Southern train derail in Ohio?

Cynthia Forse Davies/LOCAL NEWS X/TMX

Clean-up continues in East Palestine, Ohio, after a Norfolk Southern train derailed in the village, requiring the venting and burning of its cargo of flammable and hazardous vinyl chloride.

Federal and state agencies have been on scene assessing the environmental and health effects from the derailment, and political partisans have leapt on the opportunity to turn the crash into a soundbite.

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