Trains carry hazardous chemicals everyday. They're also dangerously unregulated.
Justin Mikulka, a reporter who spent years researching the rail industry’s pitfalls and disasters and wrote the book, said weakened regulations and a rush to reopen is to be expected.
. Currently, the Federal Railroad Administration, or FRA, does not have a limit on how long a train can be. While derailments have decreased in recent years, the severity has increased as the industry focuses on longer trains with small crews.
At a press conference last week Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said the train that went through East Palestine was not marked as hazardous, despite the chemicals on board. He called it ““We should know when we have trains carrying hazardous material that are going through the state of Ohio,” DeWine said.
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