This is just a running list of items that I have found useful in my consideration of the “bomb trains” that are running through my town, and many others. I may organize it later.<\/p>\n
While there has been an oil train boom, the oil riding the rails in the U.S. is almost exclusively light crude, not tar sands oil from Canada…<\/p>\n
If we want to reduce the risks from oil trains, let’s fix the trains and toughen safety standards. Disingenuous efforts to tie rail safety to tar sands pipeline construction is a bait and switch. Foisting pipelines on Americans will lock the nation into increased reliance on tar sands oil and more climate-change pollution.<\/p>\n
It does nothing to safeguard our communities.<\/p>\n
Require energy producers to remove more of the volatile gases that the oil contains when it comes out of the ground, before they load the crude into rail tankers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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