Bush administration eases railroad route safety rule

[DogPoundPup]

Source: Monterey County Herald

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barbara Neuschwander can still recall the stench and taste created by the massive fire that burned for days after a freight train carrying toxic chemicals crashed two years ago near her home south of Louisville, Ky.

A former chef disabled by asthma and diabetes, Neuschwander says she and two of her daughters continue to suffer health effects from breathing the chemical-laced smoke.

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Saying it wants to help protect people like Neuschwander, the Bush administration is pushing through a new rule that requires railroads to use the safest and most secure routes to transport hazardous cargo.

But the rule, which becomes effective during Bush's last month in office, would leave route-making decisions to railroad companies and would not require them to seek input from residents or local governments when assessing which route is safest.

Read more: http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_11251781?source=rss

[acmavm]

1. Just another way the bush** admin makes life safer by letting corporate

Amurika make all the decisions.

[WePurrsevere]

2. This trusting of big corps to do the right thing mentality is one of the

things that bugs me the most about Republicans and Libertarians in general. It's like letting a fox guard the hen house and believing it won't have a chicken or egg or two on a regular basis.

You can't trust big corps to do the right thing unless the right thing somehow makes them more money or gets them more power (which gets them more money) down the road. It's all about the bottomline which is normal is a capitalistic world but IMO it's why gov regulation, incentives, etc are needed.

[pattmarty]

5. That may be the one "good thing" about these last 8 years........

........in that now EVERYONE pretty much knows that government does indeed have a regulatory roll. I think the argument now will be when and how much.

[Festivito]

3. During his time the rule is in effect, then claims he deregulates.

Sinister. The bad things happen during another president's term.

[pattmarty]

4. ya know, Obama's transition team must include a special.........

.......team of lawyers just to follow all this crap and make a list of all the "executive orders" that Obama will have to issue to negate this.

[HopeHoops]

6. "Hey Uncle Dickie! What else can we blow up before we have to leave the park?"

[LynnTheDem]

7. Another great big FUCK YOU to Americans frim George W. bUsh.

Dear rightwingnuts; do you begin to comprehend yet -just a wee glimmer- what the fuck you've done to the country you insist you love by your voting that MFer in???

Do you understand what hazards you've allowed for your own kids???

[DeepModem Mom]

8. K&R.

[Javaman]

9. Isn't the timing amazing. Obama and Biden are traveling to the inauguration by train.

coincidence?

I put nothing past those bastards* in washington.

[Truth Teller]

10. Let's make a new rule

It's only news if Bush is NOT whoring for some corporate interests.