New Oil Train Legislation
WNYT | May 4, 2015 | Report by Kumi Tucker
MENANDS - Elaine Kemprowski lives too near the train tracks in Menands for her own comfort.
Schumer: New oil train safety rules won't protect Upstate New York
Syracuse Post-Standard | May 4, 2015 | Column by Mark Weiner
New federal rules intended to improve the safety of trains hauling crude oil amount to a "reckless gamble" that America can't afford, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said Monday.
Oil trains have 3 more years to explode, thanks to weak Obama rule
Mother Jones (via Grist) | May 4, 2015 | Column by Luke Whelan
Trains hauling crude oil have continued to explode across the United States and Canada this year as oil production booms in North Dakota and Alberta. Nearly two dozen oil trains have derailed in the past two years, many causing fiery explosions and oil spills. Lawmakers, environmentalists, and communities in the path of these trains have ramped up pressure on the Obama administration to toughen what they see as lax safety regulations at the heart of the problem.
Feds: Terminal for crude oil trains violates air standards
The Fresno Bee | May 4, 2015 | AP Report
TAFT, CALIF. — Federal authorities say a train terminal used to unload crude oil in Southern California violates clean air regulations.
Construction Begins on Wind Farm off Block Island
East End Beacon | May 4, 2015 | Column by Beth Young
The Rhode Island-based firm Deepwater Wind, which had hoped to build a wind farm to power the East End off of the Montauk coast, has begun work installing five turbines in a demonstration project off the coast of Block Island, which could be the first offshore wind farm in the United States.
Sen. Schumer wants faster retirement of older, less-sturdy oil train tankers
Times Union | May 4, 2015 | Post by Brian Nearing
Saying new federal rules on oil train safety are too weak, Sen. Charles Schumer is proposing a law to toughen them up, starting with phasing out certain kinds of oil train tanker cars much faster that now planned.
The world needs to triple its investments in clean energy innovation
The Washington Post | May 4, 2015 | Column by Chris Mooney
The world needs to triple its investments in clean energy research, suggests a new study by the Paris-based International Energy Agency, if we’re to have a chance of keeping the world below 2 degrees Celsius of warming above pre-industrial levels — a level beyond which truly dangerous climate change might set in.
EPA Cites Bakersfield Oil Train Terminal for Clean Air Act Violations
Center for Biological Diversity | May 4, 2015 | Press Release
Federal Agency Says California Oil Train Terminal Is Major Air Pollution Source, Permit Invalid Without Significant Environmental Review
