Pirro Lies About Trump Repealing Rail Safety Rules

Mediaite reports:

Co-hosts of Fox News’s The Five, Jessica Tarlov and Jeanine Pirro touched on the ongoing debate regarding who is to blame for the Ohio train derailment that led to the release of toxic chemicals near East Palestine. During a discussion Friday, Tarlov accurately noted that the Trump administration rescinded a rule requiring trains to upgrade their brakes. Pirro jumped in, declaring Congress repealed that rule, when in fact it was his Department of Transportation.

The Hill reports:



The Trump administration in 2017 repealed a 2015 rule that would require some trains carrying hazardous substances to upgrade their braking systems to electronically-controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes. In 2018, representatives for Earthjustice, Waterkeeper Alliance, Sierra Club, Riverkeeper, Washington Environmental Council and Stand filed an administrative appeal of the Trump administration’s replacement rule.