Trump officials roll back Obama oil train safety rule

The Department of Transportation found that the Obama-era rule was not “economically justified”. Evidently, public and environmental safety is no longer a concern in regulation that might reduce corporate profits.

The Hill reported, “The Department of Transportation’s Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) said it undertook a congressionally mandated analysis of the provision in a 2015 regulation under which oil trains would have had to use electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes.

“The Department [of Transportation] determined that the expected benefits, including safety benefits, of implementing ECP brake system requirements do not exceed the associated costs of equipping tank cars with ECP brake systems, and therefore are not economically justified,” PHMSA said.”

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Trump officials roll back Obama oil train safety rule, Timothy Cama, The Hill