Category: “Middle Column”
- Three million gallons of oil moves by rail each week across 11 Nebraska counties
- Governor of Washington says an oil-train explosion is similar to a “bomb” going off and cities need better preparation for crashes
- EPA has the authority to stop mountaintop removal coal mining, judge rules
- California’s frack-fluid disclosure law hobbled by missing reports, slow processing times and incomplete information
- Chicago officials demand hefty fees and better safety for crude oil trains, saying a crash in the city would cause “unthinkable” devastation
- We are seeing a rare debate on cause of warming, author says
- Army Corps of Engineers says it won’t hold a public hearing to get public’s comments on Louisiana coal terminal