Tag: Wreck

EPA lawyer handled Ohio train wreck despite her husband’s law firm representing Norfolk Southern

A senior Environmental Protection Agency lawyer managed cleanup efforts and congressional oversight of last year’s toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, despite her husband’s law firm defending the company responsible for the wreck. Documents obtained by The Washington Times reveal that EPA Deputy General Counsel for Environmental Programs and Oversight Natalia Sorgente was allowed […]

Wreck of merchant ship that sank in 1940 found in Lake Superior

WHITEFISH POINT, Mich. — Shipwreck hunters have discovered a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1940, taking its captain with it, during a storm off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society and shipwreck researcher Dan Fountain announced Monday the discovery of the 244-foot (74-meter) bulk carrier Arlington in about 650 […]