Trump administration rolls back Obama-era oil train safety rules
Source: KOMO (AP)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The Trump administration has angered environmental groups and residents of the Columbia River Gorge by rolling back a 2015 rule on oil train safety.
The Obama administration rule change required trains carrying highly explosive liquids to have electronically controlled pneumatic brakes installed by 2021 - systems intended to help prevent fiery oil train wrecks like the one that happened in the Oregon last year, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported Thursday.
A Union Pacific train derailed in the small Columbia River town of Mosier in June 2016, spilling 42,000 gallons of crude oil and sparking a massive fire that burned for 14 hours.
The U.S. Department of Transportation under President Donald Trump now says, however, that the rule change would cost three times the benefit it would produce and is rolling it back, the station reported. Electronically controlled pneumatic brakes are supposed to be faster than the current industry standard - air-controlled brakes - because the simultaneously signal to the entire train.
Industry officials reacted positively to the news.
Chet Thompson, of the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, said in a statement that the rollback a "rational decision." Conservation groups and lawmakers in the Northwest said the rollback was frustrating, but unsurprising.
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Pickens,Ham,and of Anshutz of Union Pacific Rail.
Get ready for some nasty disasters.
Butterflylady
(3,544 posts)Looks like I wouldn't be doing anymore.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)Didn't think so..............
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)kirby
(4,441 posts)I am pretty sure eventually Trump will have the official list of Presidents changed to replace Obama's name with an asterisk that just says (*44 - Illegitimate Kenyan Muslim - disqualified from service)
bluestarone
(16,976 posts)might as well get ready cause they are coming!!
eezapata
(35 posts)HEY TRUMP I HEARD THAT OBAMA WANTED TO BUILD A WALL BETWEEN US AND MEXICO TOO.
Panich52
(5,829 posts)of oil trains Maddow showed?
bluestarone
(16,976 posts)and here we go again
iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)on this earth.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Why not?
Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)hexola
(4,835 posts)Fuck Youuuuuuuuuuuuua!
Rhiannon12866
(205,478 posts)And now he's expanded to make life worse elsewhere in the world...