Hazardous Materials

The Runaway Train

Kenny Lee discusses the oil boom in America and the extensive use of tank-car trains to transport crude oil, and how this has ushered into an era. Oil-train derailments and the resulting spills have skyrocketed 900 percent in just two years from 2010 to 2012. At the heart of the problem is the common tank cars used by freight train companies known as DOT-111.

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