Bomb Trains' Coming Soon Through Your Town

[douglas9]

An energy company tied to a hedge fund that loaned millions to the Trump Organization and the Kushner Companies will benefit after Team Trump approved railroads running “bomb trains” through our nation.

They are loaded with liquefied natural gas with more explosive power than the atom bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

Liquefied natural gas is even more volatile than Bakken crude oil carried on trains like the one that derailed and caught fire on July 6, 2013, in Lac-Mégantic in Quebec, killing 47 people. Most of the victims had to be identified with DNA samples and dental records. The bodies of five of the people were never recovered.

Drue Pearce, the political appointee who is deputy administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, helped shepherd the regulation through the agency. Trump in April 2019 had called for federal rules to be rewritten so trains could carry liquefied natural gas.

https://www.dcreport.org/2020/09/29/bomb-trains-coming-soon-through-your-town/

[Iliyah]

1. These people only care about money . .

damn the welfare and health of the nation.

[42bambi]

3. As I've said many times, Republicans love money and Democrats love people. nt

[rzemanfl]

2. The source is rated as truthful.

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12354473

[LiberalArkie]

4. I thought Propane (LPG) was more bang. Tankers travel all over the place and they are all over

rural America.

[douglas9]

5. What You Should Know About Liquefied Natural Gas and Rail Cars

THE EXPLOSION RISK of transporting volatile liquefied natural gas in vulnerable tank cars through major population centers is off the charts.

Yet the Trump administration is finalizing a rule that would allow trains to travel the country filled with an unprecedented amount of explosive liquefied natural gas. The National Transportation Safety Board and the National Association of State Fire Marshals have objected to the proposed rule.

Earthjustice has filed a legal challenge to stop these “bomb trains.”

Here’s what you should know:



https://earthjustice.org/features/liquefied-natural-gas-lng-by-rail-tanker-car