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(Reuters) – A Norfolk Southern (NYSE:) prepare derailed on Saturday, spilling diesel gasoline and polypropylene plastic pellets into the Lehigh River in jap Pennsylvania, police stated.
There have been no studies of accidents to the crew on the prepare or evacuations or a hazardous materials risk to the neighborhood, the Decrease Saucon Township Police Division stated in a press release.
Emergency personnel have been dispatched and containment booms have been deployed to manage the oil spill, it added.
Norfolk Southern, in a put up on social media platform X, stated it will examine the accident, including that their crew and contractors would stay on the scene over the approaching days to wash up.
Ancora Holdings, which holds a big fairness stake within the firm, known as for the rapid termination of Norfolk Southern Chief Government Officer Alan Shaw and urged an orderly reconstitution of the board, that firm stated in a press release following the derailment.
Early final 12 months, a Norfolk Southern Railroad-operated prepare derailed, inflicting a fireplace that despatched a cloud of smoke over the city of East Palestine, Ohio, and forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate.
President Joe Biden visited the world final month and known as the prepare derailment “an act of greed.” He urged Congress to cross a bipartisan invoice to toughen rail security legal guidelines.
