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Oregon explosion reminds us oil trains are weapons of mass destruction

2016-06-07 00:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: An oil train that went off the tracks and burst into flames in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon last week hasn`t been cleaned up yet, but the railroad is already back to business as usual. And many North Americans are feeling renewed anxieties about the danger of what activists call "bomb trains." On Friday, 16 Union Pacific train cars filled with highly combustible fracked oil from the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota derailed outside Mosier, Ore. Multiple cars caught fire, and about...

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