The latest profit scheme for America’s “pipeline on rails.” | Already besieged by explosive oil trains and polluting coal trains, rail-line communities in the Pacific Northwest may soon face a new vexation: mile-long trains hauling liquefied natural gas (LNG). It’s thanks to a little-known experiment taking place in Alaska, under test conditions that bear little resemblance to realities in Cascadia. The first LNG-by-rail shipment For safety reasons, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) does not allow railroads in the US to...
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