No executive, board of director, or shareholder of Norfolk Southern will be held accountable. They know this and now are just trying to minimize PR fallout and lawsuits that could cost them money. They are all about the profit and greed. They don't care about communities, workers, the environment or our country. They only care about their wallets. They're dumping toxins, trying to buy off potential law suits, all on top of the shaving of their workforce, lack of investment in equipment and safety and the continued stock buybacks to boost executive, board and shareholder wealthy and satisfy their ravenous greed. In other words, a model American corporation.

Norfolk Southern Secretly Dumps Toxins https://politicususa.substack.com/p/norfolk-southern-secretly-dumps-toxins

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"In what figuratively would be the dark of night, given that they notified no officials, Norfolk Southern began on Wednesday to dump toxic materials from their train derailment into Wayne County.
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“more than 218,000 gallons of toxic liquid waste was on its way to the county and some had already arrived,” WXYZ reported.

“Officials said they were ‘blindsided’ and weren't informed of the waste transport.”
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People Are Being Sandbagged
"1.8 million people are being sandbagged. Vinyl chloride is a serious carcinogen and something we should have heard about sooner. The landfill taking the deep well injections is a facility cited many times and shut down in the past,” Evans said. "Just because they are licensed, we have to ask why were these facilities cited in the past for a number of violations? Any of us that live and breathe are at risk."

Some of the contaminated soil from the Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine was to be moved via truck to a disposal site in Belleville. Toxic materials that left Ohio on Wednesday were being sent to Van Buren Township and Belleville, Michigan.
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It’s Not Just Michigan
Michigan isn’t alone. Texas and Ohio are other states tagged to get dumped on even more.
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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said state environmental officials made a "criminal referral" into the toxic train derailment. A lawsuit filed by two Pennsylvanians is demanding Norfolk Southern pay for medical screenings and related care for anyone living within a 30-mile radius of the derailment, which happened very close to the state border.

$7.5 Billion in Corporate Greed
Norfolk Southern offered residents in East Palestine $1,000.00 checks, which a lawyer warned might be used to as “a sly way of getting these poor folks to waive any future claims against NS.”

Weeks later, Norfolk Southern will now spend $6.5 million to help those impacted by their toxic train derailment in East Palestine. How generous!

But wait. “But in a plan released earlier this year, the company said it’s planning to spend more than a thousand times that amount — $7.5 billion — to repurchase its own shares in order to benefit its shareholders,” CNN reported.

$7.5 billion to benefit shareholders. More than a thousand times the amount they’re giving to the people into whose soil, water, and air they’ve released toxic chemicals.

Cutting Employees While Pocketing Obscene Money
That’s nothing new for Norfolk Southern. The same company cut over 9,600 jobs since 2002. In that same period they gave shareholders 4,500% more money, according to a More Perfect Union.

“The root causes of this wreck,” Railroad Workers United said in a statement released days after the derailment, “are the same ones that have been singled out repeatedly, associated with the hedge fund initiated operating model known as “Precision Scheduled Railroading.”

“They cut their workforce to barebones, and now they’re paying the price for it because the wheels are falling off the train,” Clyde Whitaker of the Sheet Metal Rail Transportation Union told More Perfect Union shortly after the Ohio disaster.

These same people who dumped over 9,600 people from their payroll so they could pocket more money for shareholders needed a place to dump the toxic soil and water from the site in East Palestine."