Oil on the Tracks: Pacific Northwest Rises for Rail Safety

If there were ever any question about how the public feels about “moving time bombs,” or oil trains carrying volatile crude through the state’s coastal estuaries, aquifers, population centers and tribal lands, the answers began at the crack of dawn and ricocheted into the night. At a five-hour-plus hearing, the public weighed in on a draft report on oil train safety and spill response issued by the Washington State Department of Ecology.

Oil on the Tracks: Pacific Northwest Rises for Rail Safety

-Truth-out.org 11/6/2014