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Brake rule rescinded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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