Jim Hightower's Lowdown

How Things Work: Turning Good Legislation Bad


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After Norfolk Southern’s 2-mile long freight train derailed in February, dumping toxic chemicals and exploding in an Ohio town, its corporate PR machine zoomed into panic mode. Facing nationwide condemnation, lawsuits, and political outrage—the $12.7-billion-a-year giant suddenly embraced a congressional package of safety reforms that it had vehemently been fighting right up to the day of its disastrous derailment. Yes, that’s pure self-serving corporate cynicism, but we have to grab progress where we can, and Norfolk’s embrace put bipartisan oomph behind the Railway Safety Act, pushing it forward.
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