Ohio senators introduce rail safety bill after fiery crash in East Palestine

"Through this legislation, Congress has a real opportunity to ensure that what happened in East Palestine will never happen again," Vance said in a statement. "We owe every American the peace of mind that their community is protected from a catastrophe of this kind."

The Association of American Railroads trade group says 99.9% of hazardous materials shipments reach their destinations safely, and railroads are generally regarded as the safest option to transport dangerous chemicals across land. Still, the East Palestine accident showed how even one derailment involving hazardous materials can be devastating.Railroad worker unions argue that operational changes and widespread job cuts across the industry in the past six years have made railroads riskier.

"Rail lobbyists have fought for years to protect their profits at the expense of communities like East Palestine and Steubenville and Sandusky," he said in a statement. "These commonsense bipartisan safety measures will finally hold big railroad companies accountable, make our railroads and the towns along them safer, and prevent future tragedies, so no community has to suffer like East Palestine again.

Brown, Vance and the bill's other early co-sponsors - who include Democrats Robert Casey Jr. and John Fetterman, of Pennsylvania, and Republicans Marco Rubio, of Florida, and Josh Hawley, of Missouri - also would increase the maximum fine that the U.S. Department of Transportation can impose for safety violations. It would raise it from $225,000 to up to 1% of a railroad's annual operating income, which could run into the tens of millions of dollars.

That would be a great idea if the Republicans don’t block it

In related news: Biden admin releases its updated exit strategy from Afghanistan, including blaming trump, more committees and $trillion in funding, anything actionable TBD

If they already weren’t being held accountable fi horrific acts what makes you think these ‘new bipartisan regulations’ won’t just get rolled back quietly in a few years when nobody is paying attention? Our government is nothing but committees and hypotheticals, no spine.

What about the train derailment yesterday in Sarasota, Florida carrying 30,000 gallons of liquid propane? They won’t release details.

Let’s see them create some legislation on industries they have business with now. Of course you can use the rail industry as a punching bag. It’s not oil or banking.

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Ohio senators introduce rail safety bill after fiery crash in East PalestineA bipartisan group of U.S. senators has proposed legislation that would make railroads, like the one involved in last month's fiery crash and toxic chemical release in Ohio, subject to a series of new federal safety regulations and financial consequences. So, kinda of like the regulations that were in place before Trump got rid of them….how anyone supports that man is pure crazy. Ohio lawmakers (republicans) that was responsible for the disaster, already had things in place to prevent this kind of disaster. The GOP is a death cult.
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Ohio senators introduce rail safety bill after fiery crash in East PalestineA bipartisan group of U.S. senators has proposed legislation that would make railroads, like the one involved in last month's fiery crash and toxic chemical release in Ohio, subject to a series of new federal safety regulations and financial consequences. Seems like this was done on a national level, until some excuse for a leader said no to these regulations.
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