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How Extreme Heat Could Lead To More Oil Rail Car Derailments

2014-05-28 08:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ThinkProgress: Fossil fuel transportation by rail, already beleaguered by a series of disasters, could actually see things get worse thanks to the very climate change it`s helping to drive: as temperatures increase, rail tracks are more likely to warp, leading to more derailments. While the storms and floods and such that come with climate change threaten the United States` infrastructure in a variety of ways, bouts of extreme heat in particular can cause the metal rails in train tracks to bend and buckle, according...

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