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Oil Train Derailments Renew Questions About Safety

2015-02-17 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LA Times: The derailments this week of two trains carrying crude oil have raised new questions about the adequacy of federal efforts to improve the safety of moving oil on tank cars from new North American wells to distant refineries. A 100-car, southbound CSX train derailed Monday in a West Virginia river valley, destroying a home and possibly contaminating the water supply for downriver residents. A thundering fireball rose hundreds of feet above the community amid an intense winter storm. Back-to-back...

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