Groups Bring New Legal Action for Federal Ban of Dangerous Oil Tank Rail Cars

by Gary Kopycinski on December 2, 2014

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Federal agency refuses to act on hazardous rail cars carrying explosive Bakken crude

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A train with DOT-111 tanker cars. Chris Jordan-Bloch/Earthjustice

Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–December 2, 2014. Today, Earthjustice on behalf of Sierra Club and ForestEthics challenged the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) denial in November of the groups’ petition for an immediate ban on the most hazardous DOT-111 rail tank cars carrying explosive Bakken crude oil. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in 2012 called for…