NTSB Chair casts doubt on vent and burn strategy following East Palestine, Ohio train derailment • Ohio Capital Journal

National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy cast doubt Wednesday on the justification for a controlled burn following a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio last year. She spoke before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Some committee members focused on the recent mid-air door plug accident on an Alaska Airlines flight, but Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance turned her attention to the disaster near Ohio’s border with Pennsylvania. “Is it true that the chemical shipper, OxyVinyls, concluded that the reported and stabilized tank car temperatures...