Since the East Palestine derailment, many questions have come up about regulating the railways as well as criticisms about what has changed that has impacted safety and who is watching.
"We see you. We hear you. And we understand why there is anxiety,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said last week.
While some complain about the federal response, there are also questions about what the federal government’s responsibilities are before accidents happen. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called on the industry to take what he said were immediate, commonsense steps to improve safety — among them, tougher tanks."In general, hazardous materials could be going through communities in stronger tank cars. Let's speed that up,” Buttigieg said.
A proposed rule that would have required electronically controlled brakes on trains designated high-hazard flammable trains was dropped amid heavy lobbying under the Trump Administration. The Associated Press reports while there were about 1,000 derailments in the United States last year, the numbers are on the decline.
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