Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg shared tweets that, by his department’s assessment, were misinterpreted and led to some confusion about the cause of the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
Buttigieg addressed the train derailment in a lengthy Twitter thread on Feb. 14. In the thread, Buttigieg said his department has made “historic investments on rail safety” but went on to say that the department has been restrained from implementing some safety regulations, such as implementing requirements for trains to use electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes.
