New Oil Train Rules Would Force Railroad Companies To Plan For The Worst

A little over a month after a Union Pacific train carrying Bakken crude oil derailed outside of the tiny Oregon known of Mosier, the Department of Transportation has announced new rules aimed at ensuring that communities near oil train routes have adequate information and help in the event of an oil derailment.

The new rules would, among other things, require railroad companies that ship oil by rail to come up with response plans in case of a worst-case scenario oil spill — something that most railroad companies are not currently required to do....
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/07/14/3798144/oil-train-regulations-spill-plan-information/