U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg toured the wreckage of this month's Ohio train derailment and toxic spill and urged freight rail firms not to stand in the way of tougher safety regulations.
It said "defect detectors" showed the axle and wheel bearing starting to heat up about 30 miles from the derailment site, but not to levels that would have triggered the audible alarm to warn the train engineer that far away.
The board said it would hold a rare "investigative field hearing" near the site in East Palestine and call witnesses. The board said all parties involved in the derailment were fully cooperating with its investigation. Experts had said that if those valves had functioned properly, authorities may not have needed to drain upward of 1.1 million pounds of vinyl chloride from cars and purposefully set it ablaze, releasing heavily contaminating the environment.
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