Hill Heat: Trump Nominates Crude-By-Rail Executive Skip Elliott As PHMSA AdministratorScience Policy Legislation Actiontag:hillheat.org,2005:TypoTypo2017-09-11T11:39:13-04:00Brad Johnsonurn:uuid:dad1bfff-bdc8-44cb-9a3b-4096970495012017-09-11T10:23:00-04:002017-09-11T11:39:13-04:00Trump Nominates Crude-By-Rail Executive Skip Elliott As PHMSA Administrator<p><img src='/files/skip_elliott.jpg' alt='Skip Elliott' style='float:right;margin-left:10px' />Late Friday, the Trump administration announced it was <a href='http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/regulatory/elliott-slated-for-phmsa-post.html'>nominating <span class="caps">CSX</span> executive Howard R. “Skip” Elliott to be Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration</a> (PHMSA) in the U.S. Department of Transportation.</p>
<p><span class="caps">PHMSA</span>, with the Federal Railroad Administration, holds regulatory responsibility for pipeline transportation of flammable, toxic, or corrosive natural gas and other gases, the transportation and storage of liquefied natural gas, and hazardous materials transported in railroad tank cars.</p>
<p><span class="caps">CSX</span> dominates <a href='http://www.csxcrudebyrail.com/index.cfm/resources/crude-oil-network-map/'>crude-by-rail transport</a> east of the Mississippi, bringing explosive oil trains through major metropolitan centers on a daily basis.</p>
<p>This position, along with Trump’s successful nominations of Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioners, will smooth the initiation of currently stalled fracked-gas pipeline projects.</p>
<p>As group Vice President of Public Safety, Health, Environment and Security for <span class="caps">CSX</span> Transportation in Jacksonville, Fla., Elliott’s responsibilities include hazardous materials transportation safety, homeland security, railroad policing, crisis management, environmental compliance and operations, occupational health management and continuity of business operations. He is a graduate of Columbia Southern University and Indiana University.</p>
<p>In 2011, Elliott led <span class="caps">CSX</span>’s participation in the Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF) <a href='https://www.csx.com/index.cfm/about-us/media/press-releases/csx-announces-results-of-partnership-to-address-climate-change/'>2011 Climate Corps</a> program, which places specially-trained graduate students in a three-month fellowship.</p>
<p><span class="caps">CSX</span> has invested over one billion dollars in higher fuel efficiency, with the ironic result of the more efficient transport of and thus increased production of highly polluting tar-sands oil.</p><p><img src='/files/skip_elliott.jpg' alt='Skip Elliott' style='float:right;margin-left:10px' />Late Friday, the Trump administration announced it was <a href='http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/regulatory/elliott-slated-for-phmsa-post.html'>nominating <span class="caps">CSX</span> executive Howard R. “Skip” Elliott to be Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration</a> (PHMSA) in the U.S. Department of Transportation.</p>
<p><span class="caps">PHMSA</span>, with the Federal Railroad Administration, holds regulatory responsibility for pipeline transportation of flammable, toxic, or corrosive natural gas and other gases, the transportation and storage of liquefied natural gas, and hazardous materials transported in railroad tank cars.</p>
<p><span class="caps">CSX</span> dominates <a href='http://www.csxcrudebyrail.com/index.cfm/resources/crude-oil-network-map/'>crude-by-rail transport</a> east of the Mississippi, bringing explosive oil trains through major metropolitan centers on a daily basis.</p>
<p>This position, along with Trump’s successful nominations of Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioners, will smooth the initiation of currently stalled fracked-gas pipeline projects.</p>
<p>As group Vice President of Public Safety, Health, Environment and Security for <span class="caps">CSX</span> Transportation in Jacksonville, Fla., Elliott’s responsibilities include hazardous materials transportation safety, homeland security, railroad policing, crisis management, environmental compliance and operations, occupational health management and continuity of business operations. He is a graduate of Columbia Southern University and Indiana University.</p>
<p>In 2011, Elliott led <span class="caps">CSX</span>’s participation in the Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF) <a href='https://www.csx.com/index.cfm/about-us/media/press-releases/csx-announces-results-of-partnership-to-address-climate-change/'>2011 Climate Corps</a> program, which places specially-trained graduate students in a three-month fellowship.</p>
<p><span class="caps">CSX</span> has invested over one billion dollars in higher fuel efficiency, with the ironic result of the more efficient transport of and thus increased production of highly polluting tar-sands oil.</p>