{"id":10499,"date":"2023-04-21T17:43:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T17:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10499"},"modified":"2023-04-21T17:43:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T17:43:01","slug":"why-train-derailments-involving-hazardous-chemicals-keep-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10499","title":{"rendered":"Why train derailments involving hazardous chemicals keep happening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Human error and track defects are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/03\/09\/1161921856\/there-are-about-3-u-s-train-derailments-per-day-they-arent-usually-major-disaste\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two of the biggest causes of derailments<\/a>, for example. In cases involving hazardous chemicals,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2023\/02\/09\/did-train-wrecks-spill-hazardous-chemicals-near-your-home-look-data\/11197948002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">equipment failures have also played a role<\/a>&nbsp;in the past. These issues, broadly, may be compounded by staffing cuts railroads have made in recent years and their resistance to more costly equipment upgrades.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/2023\/3\/30\/23663182\/minnesota-train-derailment-east-palestine-hazardous-chemicals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/2023\/3\/30\/23663182\/minnesota-train-derailment-east-palestine-hazardous-chemicals<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Human error and track defects are two of the biggest causes of derailments, for example. In cases involving hazardous chemicals, equipment failures have also played a role in the past. These issues, broadly, may be compounded by staffing cuts railroads have made in recent years and their resistance to more costly equipment upgrades.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1099],"class_list":["post-10499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10500,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10499\/revisions\/10500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}