Author: Bruce Dixon
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Bomb Trains: Oil-by-Rail Rises Once Again as Safety Rules Disappear
Get ready a crude awakning as energy companies get the regs relaxed to ship oil by rail (bomb trains) almost everywhere. While a second oil-by-rail boom is well underway in North America, both the U.S. and Canada are taking steps that ignore or undermine the lessons and regulatory measures to improve safety since the oil train explosions and spills of…