Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw gives an opening statement during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing on Wednesday, March 22, 2023 to discuss rail safety after last month’s derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
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Norfolk Southern CEO declines to back reform bill
The head of the railroad involved in February’s East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment says he supports certain aspects of a bipartisan reform bill but stopped short of saying he supported it.
Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw, testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee, told Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) he backed certain aspects such as funding for first-responder hazardous materials training and expansion of advanced notification.
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), a sponsor of the measure and a member of the committee, also made an opening witness statement, blasting what he called the railroad’s “blurry legalisms” in descriptions of their corrective actions.
“Phrases from their announcement, ‘develop a plan,’ ‘anticipates adding,’ and ‘where practical’ are not enough, not when towns across America are at stake,” Vance said.
Norfolk Southern has faced scrutiny following the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine. The train’s contents included cars of the hazardous chemical vinyl chloride.
Read the full report on Shaw’s testimony at TheHill.com.
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