The cause of the East Palestine train crash.
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How to Improve Rail Safety After the East Palestine Train Derailment
The Washington Post editorial board said the accident was preventable and proposed some solutions on what to do next. The National Transportation Safety Board issued a preliminary report Thursday outlining what is known about what happened. Many trains still rely on a civil war-era braking system, and they aren't using the latest detectors that experts say could have caught the deteriorating bearing months before that fateful day. In Vox, Umer Iphraim focused on the need for long-term monitoring of East Palestine citizens and a continued environmental cleanup effort.
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