Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has filed suit against Norfolk Southern claiming the East Palestine derailment from last month was “entirely avoidable.”
was “entirely avoidable” and a result of the company’s greed, new court papers allege.
were released into the air and 1.1 million gallons of water and 15,000 pounds of soil were contaminated. The sprawling 58-count lawsuit claims the company was negligent in allowing defective trains and train operations to contaminate the state’s natural resources and threaten human and environmental health.And the local economy, residents and businesses have suffered financially because of last month’s crash, the suit claims.
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