This is just a running list of items that I have found useful in my consideration of the “bomb trains” that are running through my town, and many others. I may organize it later.

Disingenuous efforts to tie rail safety to tar sands pipeline construction is a bait and switch.

While there has been an oil train boom, the oil riding the rails in the U.S. is almost exclusively light crude, not tar sands oil from Canada…

If we want to reduce the risks from oil trains, let’s fix the trains and toughen safety standards. Disingenuous efforts to tie rail safety to tar sands pipeline construction is a bait and switch. Foisting pipelines on Americans will lock the nation into increased reliance on tar sands oil and more climate-change pollution.

It does nothing to safeguard our communities.

How to Prevent an Oil Train Disaster

Require energy producers to remove more of the volatile gases that the oil contains when it comes out of the ground, before they load the crude into rail tankers.