Another Union Pacific freight train has derailed in Nebraska, sparking an emergency response.
“Around thirty cars carrying coal jumped tracks three miles southeast of the town of Gothenburg.
Emergency hazmat teams rushed to the site of the crash. There were no reported injuries.
It was the fourth derailment involving a Union Pacific train in the area since May last year, KNOP reported.
In a statement to Fox News, Union Pacific said a clean up operation was underway with heavy machinery.
The rail industry has come under intense scrutiny after the February 3rd derailment of a Norfolk Southern train that forced the residents of East Palestine, Ohio, to evacuate.
Toxic chemicals including First World War-era gasses were deliberately burned, causing toxins to seep into the surrounding air and water.
The environmental fallout left thousands of fish dead, while returning residents reported respiratory illnesses and burning throats and eyes.
Another Norfolk Southern train derailed in Michigan last week.
On Tuesday, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called on the rail industry to immediately improve safety standards or face stiff penalties.
Buttigieg said he planned to increase fines for ‘egregious violations’, force rail companies to provide sick pay and inform local officials when they are transporting hazardous materials through their state.
He further called on railroad companies to set up confidential hotlines where staff could report safety concerns, after previous instances of Norfolk Southern allegedly trying to silence whistleblowers.
The Environmental Protection Agency issued a legally binding order on Tuesday requiring Norfolk Southern to identify and clean up contaminated soil and water resources.
The Independent has contacted Union Pacific for further details”. -Bevan Hurley, Yahoo News
While the relentless underreporting from the corporate media on the subject looks to be never-ending, train derailments across America have become almost a daily occurrence.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump traveled to East Palestine, Ohio, with Donald Trump, Jr., and Senator J.D. Vance where he accused the current administration of “indifference and betrayal”.
“You have a president going to Ukraine and you have people in Ohio that are in desperate need of help”, Trump stated to the crowd of supporters.
Unfortunately, what the citizens of Ohio are dealing with may prove to be worse than supposed governmental indifference.
To make matters worse, an East Palestine man found an undetonated blasting cap only 1.4 miles from the controlled toxic chemical burn.
“Like many residents who live within a few miles of Norfolk Southern Railway’s February 3rd train derailment, Jerry Corbin evacuated before the railroad decided to conduct a controlled burn of five freight cars containing the toxic vinyl chloride on February 6th.
When he returned to his home in Darlington Township, Pennsylvania—around 1.4 miles from the crash site—Corbin discovered two surprises. Black debris that resemble ash was strewn all over his yard and on his roof, and an ‘undetonated blasting cap’ landed in a pasture near his house”. -Epoch Times
Given the thousands of miles of train tracks throughout the country that are completely unguarded and in the middle of nowhere, it seems America’s vulnerabilities to these sorts of deliberate disruptions have yet to be recognized by the general public.