“Among the biggest relevant regulatory rollbacks Trump has conveniently remained mum over is the 2018 scrapping of a 2015 Obama-era rule requiring advanced braking technology on trains transporting particularly hazardous materials. That rule would have required compliance by certain trains by 2021 and others by 2023, but as Fortune reported at the time, Trump’s Department of Transportation decided that “the cost of installing these more sophisticated brakes outweigh[ed] the benefit.” “
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio —
“A former top official at the Federal Railroad Administration told Action News Investigates that electronic brakes could have minimized or prevented the damage from the East Palestine derailment”
Trump the idiot decided trains don’t need to upgrade their brakes