Pete Buttigieg royally screwed Trump, pun intended

evince said:
Read the whole thing liar
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Exempting trains carrying many other combustible materials, including the chemical involved in this weekend’s disaster is all I need to know. I don't have time to read past the aim of the article.
 
The final draft of the bill was written by the senate not Obama


Obama proposed a law


The senate took that proposal and made a law


They did the negotiating to write the final bill


Then the republicans and trump stripped parts out later because the corporations told them to
 
goat said:
Exempting trains carrying many other combustible materials, including the chemical involved in this weekend’s disaster is all I need to know. I don't have time to read past the aim of the article.
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Because the republicans did this you don’t have time


I had time to bring you the linked facts


You don’t care about facts
 
evince said:
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa...k-oil-train-safety-rule-idUSL1N10224E20150722



OIL AND GAS
JULY 22, 20151:25 PMUPDATED 8 YEARS AGO
UPDATE 1-U.S. Senate Republicans end bid to pare back oil train safety rule
By David Morgan

(Adds Thune quote in paragraph nine)

WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - Senate Republicans have backed away from a controversial proposal that would have repealed a new federal safety rule requiring oil trains to be equipped with advanced new braking systems.

Republicans eliminated the proposal from a multi-year surface transportation bill, after coming under pressure from the Obama administration and Democratic lawmakers, whose support they need for passage of the legislation, Senate aides said on Wednesday.

In late June, the Republican-controlled Senate Commerce Committee voted to repeal the requirement that trains carrying crude oil install electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes, less than two months after the administration unveiled sweeping new rules aimed at preventing catastrophic oil train derailments.
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Democrats and administration officials had expressed concern that if the requirement was repealed now, and research later proved ECP’s merits, the rulemaking process to revive the technology could be delayed unnecessarily, aides said. Railroads are required to begin implementing ECP brakes in 2021.
 
Then the trump fucks repealed that part before it came into effect


Then the corporations never lived up to the deal by last year


They said they had other better brakes in the works


They lied too
 
So it just Proves you can’t trust what the corporations say or promise



You have to force them with REGULATIONS
 
Well there we have it folks



This is why these regulations were not reinstated immediately by the Biden team



It had to be passed law


Biden can’t write and pass laws

He can sign them or not



The corporations had promised they were working on better brakes to get the regs taken out



They were supposed to start doing this by 2021


They didn’t


Now it’s time to force them to do the proper safety
 
evince said:
Who passed this into law and when?


The senate did that in 2014


They write the laws and negotiate the final draft with each other not the president


Then in 2017 republicans recorded MORE of those rules
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This is post 54
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Calls for regulation, likewise need to be thought through carefully.

But, in this case the NTSB found that the crew got the alarm that something was wrong with one of the cars too late to make any attempt at emergency braking effective. That is, the car with the bad bearing / wheel assembly was already beginning the derailment sequence before the crew attempted to stop the train due to an alarm.

Worse, the NTSB found that the fire created by the wheel assembly had set the boxcar on which it was on fire. This car contained plastic pellets for injection molding, a highly flammable cargo. So, the train also had a fire aboard one of the cars as well.

https://www.newsweek.com/ohio-train... as evidence for "metallurgical examination."

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/23/1158...ailment-ntsb-preliminary-report-wheel-bearing

Again, the Trump deregulation would have, and had, no effect on this derailment. It happened because of a mechanical failure of one of the cars and that wasn't detected until it was too late to prevent the derailment.
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Oh 52


Sorry



Better brakes would have helped minimize the event
 
evince said:
https://www.levernews.com/rail-companies-blocked-safety-rules-before-ohio-derailment/




Here’s the skinny
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Obama administration in 2014 proposed improving safety regulations for trains carrying petroleum and other hazardous materials. However, after industry pressure, the final measure ended up narrowly focused on the transport of crude oil and exempting trains carrying many other combustible materials, including the chemical involved in this weekend’s disaster.

Then came 2017: After rail industry donors delivered more than $6 million to GOP campaigns, the Trump administration — backed by rail lobbyists and Senate Republicans — rescinded part of that rule aimed at making better braking systems widespread on the nation’s rails.

Specifically, regulators killed provisions requiring rail cars carrying hazardous flammable materials to be equipped with electronic braking systems to stop trains more quickly than conventional air brakes. Norfolk Southern had previously touted the new technology — known as Electronically Controlled Pneumatic (ECP) brakes — for its “potential to reduce train stopping distances by as much as 60 percent over conventional air brake systems.”

But the company’s lobby group nonetheless pressed for the rule’s repeal, telling regulators that it would “impose tremendous costs without providing offsetting safety benefits.”

That argument won out with Trump officials — and the Biden administration has not moved to reinstate the brake rule or expand the kinds of trains subjected to tougher safety regulations.

“Would ECP brakes have reduced the severity of this accident? Yes,” Steven Ditmeyer, a former senior official at the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), told The Lever. “The railroads will test new features. But once they are told they have to do it… they don’t want to spend the money.”

Norfolk Southern did not answer questions about its efforts to weaken safety mandates. The company also did not answer questions about what kind of braking system was operating on the train that derailed in Ohio. The company referred The Lever to the National Transportation Safety Board, the federal agency that is investigating the accident and that had originally called for more expansive rules governing the transport of hazardous materials. A spokesperson for the agency confirmed to The Lever that the derailed train was not equipped with ECP brakes.

A spokesperson for one advocacy group pressing for tougher safety regulations said the Ohio disaster is the latest consequence of the rail industry’s cost-cutting, profit-at-all cost business model.

“Prior to the stock buyback era, railroads agreed that ECP brakes were a good thing,” said Ron Kaminkow, a longtime railroad worker and organizer with Railroad Workers United. “The railroads hadn’t yet come to the realization that they could do whatever they wanted. ECP brakes were on the drawing board, then off.”
 
focused on the transport of crude oil and exempting trains carrying many other combustible materials, including the chemical involved in this weekend’s disaster.



Republicans negotiated this away
 
evince said:
The Congress writes the bills


Not The president
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The train regulations were Obama's proposal. I heard chemical execs called a meeting with Obama and pressured him into making an exception for chemicals. Obama caved so only crude oil regulations made it to congress. How did Trump get rid of crude oil regulations without the help of a democrat congress? Trump knows how to get what he wants.
 
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