Now Cleveland is Looking to Ban Hazardous Shipments

A proposal to issue the ban has not yet been enacted. However,Cleveland’s City Council is considering such a proposal. What put the idea into the Council’s consideration?

The answer to that question isn’t certain, but in February, in reaction to the proposed D.C. ban, the Norfolk Southern Railway issued a statement saying, “The danger to D.C. residents posed by the potential release of a hazardous material is fundamentally no different from the danger of such a release to residents of Richmond, Philadelphia and Cleveland - three of the cities through which hazardous materials would likely have to be diverted.”