Ohio's Toxic Train would NOT have qualified for updated brakes under Obama's plan.

[Thinker101]

The Obama-era brake rule would not have applied to the type of train that derailed in Ohio.

As the Lever reported, when the Obama administration was drafting new safety standards for oil trains, NTSB advocated for a broader definition of “high-hazard flammable trains” that covered Class 2 flammable gasses. Vinyl chloride falls in that category.

“We believe the definition should include a broad range of hazardous materials,” Christopher Hart, then the acting chairman of NTSB, wrote to the Department of Transportation in 2014.

The Obama administration ultimately settled on a narrow definition that applies only to trains carrying a certain amount of Class 3 flammables like crude oil and ethanol. Some environmentalists slammed the standards as “weak” and watered down.

This Is The 'Perfect Storm' That Led To Ohio's Toxic Train Derailment

 

[excalibur]

Chair of the NTSB, appointed to the board by Trump, appointed as chair by Biden.

 

[g5000]

The Obama-era brake rule would not have applied to the type of train that derailed in Ohio.

As the Lever reported, when the Obama administration was drafting new safety standards for oil trains, NTSB advocated for a broader definition of “high-hazard flammable trains” that covered Class 2 flammable gasses. Vinyl chloride falls in that category.

“We believe the definition should include a broad range of hazardous materials,” Christopher Hart, then the acting chairman of NTSB, wrote to the Department of Transportation in 2014.

The Obama administration ultimately settled on a narrow definition that applies only to trains carrying a certain amount of Class 3 flammables like crude oil and ethanol. Some environmentalists slammed the standards as “weak” and watered down.

This Is The 'Perfect Storm' That Led To Ohio's Toxic Train Derailment

Well, if there is one thing the Right hates, it's federal regulations which cost businesses money, amiright?

That's all we heard about during the Obama administration. "Let the private sector decide what is best for their business! GRRRRRR!"

 

[struth]

Well, if there is one thing the Right hates, it's federal regulations which cost businesses money, amiright?

That's all we heard about during the Obama administration. "Let the private sector decide what is best for their business! GRRRRRR!"

what does that have to do with the obama admin?

 

[g5000]

what does that have to do with the obama admin?

What part do you not comprehend? I'll do my best to help you with the big words.

 

[struth]

What part do you not comprehend? I'll do my best to help you with the big words.

i don’t understand what the right has to do with a rule created by the obama admin. Sounds like more desperate deflecting by dembots

 

[g5000]

i don’t understand what the right has to do with a rule created by the obama admin. Sounds like more desperate deflecting by dembots

So...you don't find it the epitome of hypocrisy the New Right is whining Obama didn't regulate the private sector more?

This is pure performative assholery.

 

[struth]

So...you don't find it the epitome of hypocrisy the New Right is whining Obama didn't regulate the private sector more?

This is pure performative assholery.

i find the fact the dembots tried to blame trump for the ohio derailment for undoing a obama rule that had nothing to do with it

xiden admin, like most demafasict regimes, are not capable of taking responsibly, and regularly lie…this is just another example

 

[Smokin' OP]

The sequence of events began a decade ago in the wake of a major uptick in derailments of trains carrying crude oil and hazardous chemicals, including a New Jersey train crash that leaked the same toxic chemical as in Ohio.

In response, the Obama administration in 2014 proposed improving safety regulations for trains carrying petroleum and other hazardous materials. …. 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.

NOW, teabaggers whine.

 

[struth]

The sequence of events began a decade ago in the wake of a major uptick in derailments of trains carrying crude oil and hazardous chemicals, including a New Jersey train crash that leaked the same toxic chemical as in Ohio.

In response, the Obama administration in 2014 proposed improving safety regulations for trains carrying petroleum and other hazardous materials. …. 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.

NOW, teabaggers whine.

this narrative has been debunked

the obama era reg, that was removed by trump ans not put back into place by xiden had nothing to do with this derailment

 

[Smokin' OP]

this narrative has been debunked

BY WHO?
The great "struth", Q-NUT, extraordinaire.

the obama era reg, that was removed by trump ans not put back into place by xiden had nothing to do with this derailment

I took you off ignore, for this?

 

[Confederate Soldier]

That's what happens when you let environmentalists make rules. Remember when being anti-oil was all the rage back in those days? The politicians did their virtue signaling duties, and just updated oil trains, and said "fuck it" to the rest.

 

[Thinker101]

Well, if there is one thing the Right hates, it's federal regulations which cost businesses money, amiright?

That's all we heard about during the Obama administration. "Let the private sector decide what is best for their business! GRRRRRR!"

Well, we do love it when the truth comes out and we find out the Left has been caught again lying through their teeth.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Another day, another cult fuck lie.

 

[Nostra]

So...you don't find it the epitome of hypocrisy the New Right is whining Obama didn't regulate the private sector more?

This is pure performative assholery.

No stupid, he is mocking Dimwinger morons who tried to blame Trump for rescinded a regulation that wouldn't apply here.