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27 Apr 2023, 6:10 am by Don Asher
“Precision Scheduled Railroading” (PSR) cuts staff, reduces time for safety inspections and puts extra-long trains on the nation’s railways. [read post]
23 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm by renholding
In that role, he worked closely with President Franklin Roosevelt to establish the nation’s first federal securities laws. [read post]
14 Apr 2023, 5:01 am by Jim Dempsey
Indeed, this is one tool already used by the administration: The post-Colonial directives for both pipelines and railroads require regulated entities to submit their cybersecurity implementation plans for approval by the TSA. [read post]
13 Apr 2023, 9:05 pm by William McDonald
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) released a new safety advisory on avoiding train derailments on major freight railways. [read post]
31 Mar 2023, 3:10 pm by Lebowitz & Mzhen
Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), over 2,000 train-vehicle collisions have occurred at railroad tracks every year since 2013. [read post]
30 Mar 2023, 11:42 am by Geoff Schweller
Under the FRSA, railroad workers are able to report violations of federal laws and regulations related to railroad safety to federal regularly or law enforcement agencies as well as members of Congress. [read post]
29 Mar 2023, 5:16 am by Jim Dempsey
(As noted in Part 1 of this series, the Transportation Security Administration’s directives for pipelines and railroads take the same approach: Assessment reports must be supplied to the government only if requested.) [read post]
22 Mar 2023, 5:16 am by Jim Dempsey
Enforcement is also key to the management-based regulation that has dominated the FTC’s enforcement actions and that features prominently in the rules for pipelines and railroads issued by the Biden administration. [read post]
17 Mar 2023, 8:13 pm by Cari Rincker
Workers’ Compensation Employer Responsibilities The first workers’ compensation law was a federal law for railroad workers passed in 1908. [read post]
17 Mar 2023, 2:23 pm by Michael Ehline
  – The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Railroad Administration will have their hands full again for quite some time. [read post]
14 Mar 2023, 3:42 pm by William Boyd
  While this may have been the right move in terms of emergency response, Norfolk Southern as well as state and federal regulators did a terrible job explaining the risks and benefits of the decision. [read post]
9 Mar 2023, 6:53 am by Don Asher
  For instance, if a train moves through Illinois into Indiana, then federal jurisdiction comes into play and the railroad operating that train must abide by the Interstate Commerce Act’s requirements for common carriers and the regulations of the Federal Railroad Administration. [read post]
North Coast Railroad Authority (2017) 3 Cal.5th 677, which held that the federal Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act (“ICCTA”) does not preempt CEQA for a new railroad project, and that the State of California, as the railroad operator, could opt to subject itself to CEQA review without conflicting with the ICCTA. [read post]
This provision is likely in response to the sharp decline in rail engineer staffing in the past few years, as evidenced by the Federal Railroad Administration’s 2022 proposal to require at least two crewmembers for “over-the-road railroad operations. [read post]
24 Feb 2023, 4:38 pm by Allan Blutstein
Of note, the Federal Railroad Administration required an average of 182 days to respond to “simple” requests and 243 days for “complex” requests. [read post]
21 Feb 2023, 6:18 am by Don Asher
Hazard Education for Workers – Chemical Injuries on Worksite The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) has a federal safety law requiring employers to educate their employees about all the dangers and risks they face from working in a place where dangerous chemicals are used or stored. [read post]