Calif. lawmaker wants oil trains banned from ‘treacherous passes’
A California state senator has asked Gov. Jerry Brown to stop oil trains from traveling through the state’s “most treacherous” mountain passes.
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Federal court orders DOT to respond to Sierra Club’s unsafe tank-car lawsuit
A Federal court has ordered the Department of Transportation to respond to a lawsuit filed by three environmental organizations — Earthjustice, the Sierra Club and ForestEthics — in which the parties asked the court to order DOT to respond to the organizations’ request for an emergency order banning the use of DOT-111 tanks cars for the shipment of crude oil by rail. Read more at: Breaking Energy
