EPA Orders Rail Company To Conduct Superfund Cleanup At Derailment Site

EPA is issuing a unilateral administrative order to require Norfolk Southern Corporation to conduct necessary actions for cleanup activities and costs under the Superfund law associated with the massive hazardous substance release from a train derailment in Ohio, marking the transition from emergency response actions to a longer remediation phase. “Let me be crystal clear, Norfolk Southern will pay for cleaning up the mess that they created and the trauma that they inflicted on this community. . . . In...