{"id":187,"date":"2023-02-15T04:35:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T04:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/?p=187"},"modified":"2023-02-15T04:45:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T04:45:48","slug":"update-on-the-train-derailment-in-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/02\/15\/update-on-the-train-derailment-in-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on the train derailment in Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norfolk Southern, the company responsible for the accident, &#8220;with a market value of $55 billion, fought the Federal Railroad Administration\u2019s push to upgrade the &#8216;Civil War era&#8217; brake system that remains widely used in US trains, and against stricter rules on the transport of hazardous materials.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have also apparently offered $25,000 in damages &#8230; to a town of 5,000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/norfolk-southern-giving-25-000-200000640.html\">Full article here from Yahoo! Finance<\/a>, by Julia Malleck, Thu, February 9, 2023, 3:00 PM EST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maddow\/status\/1625223941403836417\">Rachel Maddow on Twitter<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norfolk Southern, the company responsible for the accident, &#8220;with a market value of $55 billion, fought the Federal Railroad Administration\u2019s push to upgrade the &#8216;Civil War era&#8217; brake system that remains widely used in US trains, and against stricter rules on the transport of hazardous materials.&#8221; They have also apparently offered $25,000 in damages &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}