Re: Trans.Sec.Buttgig on Ohio train wreck - I was a mayor for 8 years and dealt with many disasters. What disasters?
Author: Not quite
Date: 02-22-2023 - 10:52
In "2014, when the Obama administration unveiled new safety rules that, among other things, required ECP brakes on trains hauling a certain amount of crude oil and other so-called “high-hazard flammable” materials."
"The Association of American Railroads, an industry lobbying group of which Norfolk Southern is a member, fiercely opposed the regulations. "
"At the urging of AAR and other rail interests, the industry-friendly Trump administration repealed the Obama-era ECP brake rule in 2018. "