{"id":3004,"date":"2023-06-15T21:58:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T21:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=3004"},"modified":"2023-06-16T02:10:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:10:03","slug":"anatomy-of-a-train-derailment-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/anatomy-of-a-train-derailment-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"anatomy of a train derailment bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pennsylvania isn\u2019t far from the Ohio train derailment tragedy. It is only natural\u00a0that the Pennsylvania Legislature would consider\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/billinfo\/billinfo.cfm?syear=2023&amp;sind=0&amp;body=H&amp;type=B&amp;bn=1028\">HB1028 (2023 | PA)<\/a>\u00a0to improve train safety. The opponents are the state&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0chamber of commerce that\u00a0says the bill will burden business\u2019 logistics, disrupt the supply chain, and is preempted by federal law. The bill would limit trains to 8500 feet (yes, that\u2019s over a mile), require 2 train operators on the train, &amp; create a reporting system for hazardous materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotlightpa.org\/news\/2023\/06\/east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment-pa-legislature-safety-bill\/\">Spotlight PA | A train safety bill inspired by the East Palestine derailment faces tough odds in the Pa. legislature<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania isn\u2019t far from the Ohio train derailment tragedy. It is only natural\u00a0that the Pennsylvania Legislature would consider\u00a0HB1028 (2023 | PA)\u00a0to improve train safety. The opponents are the state&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0chamber of commerce that\u00a0says the bill will burden business\u2019 logistics, disrupt the supply chain, and is preempted by federal law. The bill would limit trains to 8500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3011,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions\/3011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}