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A compilation of video investigations gathered by The Erie Wire week-to-week every month. For more information on online investigative reports look to our “Investigative Newswire” feed uploaded in real-time on the bottom left of every page. If you have a story to contribute to these reports; please use the author’s email in the right column.
Editorial: Reform the Ohio EPA
The Ohio EPA's reliability to regulate based on industry funded science has resulted in a state-funded public relation department safeguarding companies on the public dollar. Now, even peer-reviewed science hailed from state universities is being discarded for company research, simply because companies had more dollars to dispose (citing Danielle Ivory's work for The Huffington Post Investigative Fund »
Norfolk Southern Mandated to Reduce Train Accidents: Investigative Report Explains Why
In a safety recommendation letter to the FRA dated two years before the collision in Graniteville ever happened, then-NTSB Chairwoman Ellen Engleman Conners wrote that “Safety Board railroad accident investigations over the past 30 years have shown conclusively that the most effective way to avoid train-to-train collisions is through the use of positive train control systems." If a positive train control system had been in place, Seeling would have received a warning that he was approaching a switch that was directing him off the main track.