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You just throw up any ol' lie for clickbait, right?Does it seem to You that the media isn't covering TRump's involvement with "increasing the odds of railway accidents"? Here is the newspaper source revealing TRaitor TRump's role in subverting rail safety, in case You want to "spread the word".
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Trump Rolls Back Train-Braking Rule Meant to Keep Oil Tankers from Exploding Near Communities
An Obama rule to require new brakes to reduce the risk of oil train derailments, causing explosions and spilling gas, was reversed by Trumpfortune.com
Fact Check: Pete Buttigieg Blames Trump for Ohio Train Disaster
by ALANA MASTRANGELO 16 Feb 2023CLAIM: U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is blaming former President Donald Trump for the train disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, claiming, “we’re constrained by law on some areas of rail regulation,” and citing a “braking rule” that was withdrawn under the Trump administration.
VERDICT: False.
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While it is true that in 2018 the Department of Transportation (DOT) withdrew a proposed rule requiring trains carrying certain dangerous chemicals to use electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes, this rule would not have applied to the train that derailed in East Palestine on February 3.
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Buttigieg’s assertion, however, is incorrect.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy announced on Thursday that if this particular rule were to have gone into effect, the mandate would have applied only to trains classified as high-hazard flammable trains.
“This means even if the rule had gone into effect, this train wouldn’t have had ECP brakes,” Homendy said, and she suggested that anyone who says otherwise is “spreading misinformation.”
Fact Check: Pete Buttigieg Blames Trump for Ohio Train Disaster