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Why Trains Are Carrying — and Spilling — A Record Amount of Oil
More than 141 “unintentional releases” were reported from railroad tankers in 2014, an all-time high and a nearly six-fold increase over the average of 25 spills per year during the period from 1975 to 2012.
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Oil Trains Are Hazardous – So Why Are U.S. Taxpayers Helping Fund Them?
Here’s the reality — we don’t need new pipelines and we don’t need oil by rail.