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Commissioners Christi Craddick, Wayne Christian and Jim Wright said the bill could limit oil and gas companies' ability to move their products by cargo train.
"The current federal administration is doing everything it can to limit domestic energy production, and this bill is just the latest effort to shut down the oil and gas industry in America,” Craddick said. “I urge members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation, and members of Congress to implement guardrails in this legislation before it moves forward."including J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and John Fetterman, D-Penn.
"Through this legislation, Congress has a real opportunity to ensure that what happened in East Palestine will never happen again," Vance said earlier this year, referring to the town where the train crash occurred."We owe every American the peace of mind that their community is protected from a catastrophe of this kind."
The bill was reported out of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation last month and is awaiting a vote on the Senate floor., saying it would,"make it much easier for this administration to restrict the transportation of coal, of oil, of natural gas and of ethanol." "The burdens on moving these commodities would carry over to the many other trains in the rail network that carry crops and building materials and cars to market. That means more time and costs to deliver everything from industrial chemicals to orange juice," he said.
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