Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw's appearance before a Pa. Senate committee Monday left legislators and a union rep frustrated with the lack of answers.
Norfolk Southern President and CEO Alan Shaw’s appearance before a state Senate committee on Monday focused heavily on the decision to purposely burn the leaking chemicals, which sent a plume of ash and smoke into Pennsylvania.
Days after the Feb. 3 derailment, authorities conducted what they described as a “controlled burn” of chemicals to avoid having the burning railcars explode. That sent a dark, ominous cloud over communities in eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. At previous hearings, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency director Randy Padfield has raised questions about the hurried decision to conduct a “controlled burn,” conflicting information that changed overnight and Norfolk Southern’s role in urging the burn.as Norfolk Southern took control.
When Mastriano told Shaw that he hopes the company doesn’t leave Pennsylvania families on their own, Shaw responded by saying he has a “deep appreciation” for residents in the region and noted his time spent in coal-mining communities in southwestern Pennsylvania. Asked after the hearing if she found any of Shaw’s testimony fruitful, Muth described it as a “box of Fruity Pebbles.”“Don’t tell me everything’s fine and not give us any data,” Muth continued. “Why do you need all these compensation funds if everything’s fine and there’s no contamination?”
“It is not good enough,” Pokrowka said. “To say that it was done by the book, you have to understand a lot of that book is written by Norfolk Southern.”
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