Norfolk Southern to create $1 million community fund to be managed by East Palestine residents
Norfolk Southern has assured the EPA that it will cover all the costs related to the evacuation and cleanup of the airborne toxic event following the derailment of a train carrying dangerous chemicals in East Palestine.
“We’re going to ask that the city basically choose a couple people to sit on the committee that are local that knows where the money could help, versus a big corporation. We don’t know the community that well,” Spielmaker said. But Spielmaker said that the $25,000 payment was a Red Cross donation intended to help them set up shop in the village during the immediate aftermath of the explosion. “That was never something we were putting out there as a, ‘Oh, look how we’re helping the community,’ that was literally just within hours of the derailment we knew the Red Cross was setting up so we wanted to give them something quickly to support that,” Spielmaker said.
As of Feb. 13, Norfolk Southern is reportedly worth around $55.26 billion. Wilson glossed over the question of legal claims in East Palestine, saying it will play out over time. “We should know when we have trains carrying hazardous material that are going to the state of Ohio,” DeWine argued during a news conference.
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