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The Company Testing Air in East Palestine Homes Was Hired by Norfolk Southern. Experts Say That Testing Isn’t Enough. <[link removed]> “It’s almost like if you want to find nothing, you run in and run out,” says one expert. by Sharon Lerner

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A Norfolk Southern Policy Lets Officials Order Crews to Ignore Safety Alerts <[link removed]> In October, months before the East Palestine derailment, the company also directed a train to keep moving with an overheated wheel that caused it to derail miles later in Sandusky, Ohio. by Topher Sanders and Dan Schwartz <[link removed]>

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