Train Derailment East Palestine Ohio - news blackout?

[HomerJS]

Even after the East Palestine incident, it's business as usual for Norfolk Southern. Yet somehow all this is Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg's fault.
Feds looking into Norfolk Southern's handling of additional reported hazmat concern weeks after East Palestine (yahoo.com)

 

[Jaskalas]

Notice Republicans attack people, and not policy.
It is because they fight for the policy to cause these derailments.

 

[eelw]

Holy crap a 3rd train derailment. Shut down this company. Or only allow them to ship cotton balls.

 

[HomerJS]

Holy crap a 3rd train derailment. Shut down this company. Or only allow them to ship cotton balls.

Or at least a moratorium on shipping hazardous materials until NS gets their act together and Congress can pass updated regulations.

 

[Brainonska511]

Holy crap a 3rd train derailment. Shut down this company. Or only allow them to ship cotton balls.

There are derailments across most of the class 1 railroads nearly every other day in this country. We're only hearing about them now because people are looking to report on them, but it's certainly nothing new. A lot is definitely driven by poor track maintenance and using excessively long trains.

Or at least a moratorium on shipping hazardous materials until NS gets their act together and Congress can pass updated regulations.

Unfortunately, that would drive that type of shipping to trucks, which would take many more to move the same amount of materials, and is also a pretty dangerous way to ship.

The best choice, that this Congress wouldn't do, is to nationalize the infrastructure, pour money into fixing up trackage, capping train lengths, and forcing the industry to abide by certain rules and schedules if they want to use our track (and it should really be our track after we practically gave away tons of land to their predecessor companies on which they made oodles of money).

 

[Pohemi]

Or at least a moratorium on shipping hazardous materials until NS gets their act together and Congress can pass updated regulations.

Right, but NS might be the only railcorp running some of the traversing rail lines (and hold the rights to them? idk), so if they put a temp regulatory type hold on NS, they run into the question of okay, who will run these tanker cars in this region?

Manufacturing industries that rely on these chemicals would have to halt some ops if the supplies they need can't get where they need to go.