Trump overturned an Obama-era rule specifically aimed at making trains carrying hazardous materials safer, then lied about it yesterday while visiting East Palestine, claiming that his administration “had nothing to do with it.”
for public ownership of the rail system, has been vocal about the role of rail companies — and the failure of lawmakers to rein them in — in the crash. They say that rail owners, in their endless quest to inflate profits at the expense of workers and public safety, have continually made decisions, like their usage of the cost-cutting model “precision scheduled railroading,” that make disasters like the one in East Palestine nearly inevitable.
Just months ago, Norfolk Southern ignored a mechanical problem similar to the one that documents say caused the East Palestine disaster,. In October, a train derailed due to a faulty wheel bearing on an engine and spilled thousands of gallons of paraffin wax elsewhere in Ohio. It appears that the company failed to take action to prevent such accidents from happening again, and dodged questions about whether or not the train crew was alerted of the problem before the train derailed.If you readdaily, weekly or even once a month, now’s the perfect time to show that you value radically independent journalism. Whether you can give $5 or $500, every dollar gets us closer.
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