The Challenge in Regulating Regulations

The challenge in all of these regulations is because the laws as written over the many years of the regulatory state are largely pro corporation. And so you have to demonstrate to have a regulation to be able to stay in effect to pass scrutiny from Congress in the courts. That can become challenging when trying to stop things like derailments that happen a lot, but they happen only a small fraction of the number of trains that go. We need better laws that are more pro-consumer and more and more aggressive on corporations.