New Rules Fail to Protect Public Safety, Nation’s Waterways, Wildlife
PORTLAND, Ore.–(ENEWSPF)–September 30, 2014. In response to inadequate federal proposals for regulating transport of volatile crude oil by rail, the Center for Biological Diversity (“Center”), Adirondack Mountain Club (“ADK”) and Friends of the Columbia Gorge (“Friends”) filed comments today calling for an immediate ban on puncture-prone tank cars involved in several explosive accidents.
The legacy DOT-111 tank cars remain in widespread use despite the National…
