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by stolenmerch
1220 days ago
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Sure, but it's a little more complicated than that. A 2015 act of Congress mandated that the Department of Transportation repeal the braking requirement if an analysis showed more costs than benefits. The act was mostly to address high profile oil tanker derailments, shipments which peaked around 2014. The Trump administration concluded, probably mistakenly, that an cost-benefit analysis justified it revocation. Of course there was much lobbying by the railroad and oil industries. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s department has no plans to reinstate an Obama-era rail safety rule aimed at expanding the use of better braking technology, even though a former federal safety official recently warned Congress that without the better brakes. The Biden administration has had every opportunity to reinstate the safety rule in the past two years. https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-world/2018/12/20/trump-ad... https://jacobin.com/2023/02/department-of-transportation-tra... |
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