While Trump accuses the Biden administration of abandoning East Palestine, opponents point to a rollback of rail safety rules under his own presidency
that East Palestine’s “water is glowing.” Campaigning in Iowa on Tuesday night, GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley noted Biden’s visit to Europe and said, “shouldn’t he be with those people in Ohio?”
The National Transportation Safety Board’s investigation into the derailment is in its early stages, making it difficult to assess whether particular changes in regulations might have contributed to the incident. Information released by investigations so far indicates that the train suffered an overheated wheel bearing in the moments before it came off the track.
Trump’s Transportation Department rolled back railroad safety rules, often arguing that new technology meant that existing standards could be relaxed without increasing risk and concluding in others that the financial costs of regulation were not worth the benefits.In practice, the Trump administration's approach often meant siding with railroad executives who sought changes to the federal rule book despite warnings from labor unions about safety risks.
Biden administration officials say they have been taking steps to tighten oversight of the rail industry, reviving proposals for new regulations and restoring an audit program that had been halted under the Trump administration. On Tuesday, Buttigieg called on the industry to make changes internally, said his agency would carry out a program of track inspections and urged Congress to act on rail safety.
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