No, the Ohio derailment wasn’t Trump’s fault
Complete facts time. What the NTSB thinks caused it, and what their chairwoman said about this brake rule: it wouldn’t have applied to that train anyway.
Ohio train links
Brake rule rescinded
https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/news/phmsa-rescinds-ecp-brake-mandate-after-ria-finds-costs-outweigh-benefits
The FAST Act of 2015
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/fastact/
The Federal Railroad Administration’s Benefit-Cost Analysis Guidance
https://railroads.dot.gov/rail-network-development/planning/benefit-cost-analysis-guidance
American Association of Railroad’s position on ECP brakes
https://www.aar.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/AAR-ECP-Brakes-Fact-Sheet.pdf
U.S. DOT Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Final Regulatory Impact Assessment of Electronically Controlled Pneumatic brake requirement on some trains
https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/news/ecp-final-updated-ria-december-2017
The full RIA which shows the lack of actual testing due to financial constraints as well as what the simulation showed (14% fewer punctured tanker cars)
https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/docs/news/69151/electronically-controlled-pneumatic-braking-final-updated-ria-12-4-2017.pdf
NTSB Preliminary Statement on the Norfolk Southern derailment at East Palestine, Ohio
https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20230214.aspx
Link to NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy’s tweet thread on misinformation
https://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-train-derailment-ntsb-chair-issues-plea-spreading/story?id=97281671
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The $ went up somebody's butt. Lobbyists suck, sorry I'm biased, was married to one. Great editing. Cool music.
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They are starting nuclear war with Russia because they are absolutely desperate to keep hidden what they have been doing... what better way to obliterate the evidence than with Global Thermonuclear War...?
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