Turns out that railroad company shot down multiple laws that would enforce electric braking, label carcinogens and toxins, modernize the railroad, and add safety features.
Edit: The reason Norfolk refused to have the brakes updated to ECP brakes was because they claim it cost to much. republican lawmakers sided with them and didn’t find the study proving their effectiveness transparent enough and claimed it was missing to much data. Even though the rest of the world also used ECP braking.
The weather did not favor them, that day it restricted the raising of the chemicals into the air for dispersal. Instead it got stuck lower the the ground and eventually came back down.
I don't really want to turn this into a whataboutism contest, but Biden also fought against the railroad workers strike which includes safety and proper handling of toxic materials.
I think we need to stop blaming parties and how the entire government responsible for their actions.
The Ohio train did not qualify for ECP breaks under the 2015 legislation passed under Obama. This was because of corporate lobbying to turn the definition of HHFT to an extremely narrow.
Trump removed the requirements for HHFT trains, but that never applied to the train that crashed in Ohio
Obama wanted this kind of train to be part of the regulation, but it got gutted out before passing in 2015.
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u/Meme_Theocracy Feb 15 '23 edited Feb 16 '23
Turns out that railroad company shot down multiple laws that would enforce electric braking, label carcinogens and toxins, modernize the railroad, and add safety features.
Edit: The reason Norfolk refused to have the brakes updated to ECP brakes was because they claim it cost to much. republican lawmakers sided with them and didn’t find the study proving their effectiveness transparent enough and claimed it was missing to much data. Even though the rest of the world also used ECP braking.
The weather did not favor them, that day it restricted the raising of the chemicals into the air for dispersal. Instead it got stuck lower the the ground and eventually came back down.