US Senator Expresses Crude-by-Rail Safety Concerns

摘要

US Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) asked the Obama administration on Friday to take a closer look at the safety of rail cars built to relatively new specifications in light of two recent crude-by-rail accidents in the US and Canada (OD Feb.18'15). "Oil train accidents over the weekend in Mount Carbon, West Virginia, and rural Ontario raise new concerns about supposedly safer CPC-1232 tank cars that must be acted on quickly," Wyden wrote in a letter to the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Shaun Donovan. The OMB coordinates regulations issued by federal agencies.