{"id":50084,"date":"2014-07-15T16:04:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T21:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=50084"},"modified":"2014-07-16T18:13:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T23:13:52","slug":"ban-sought-on-oil-shipped-in-older-r-r-tankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=50084","title":{"rendered":"Ban Sought On Shipping Oil In Older RR Tankers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/oiltankerderail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22542\" alt=\"oiltankerderail\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/oiltankerderail.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/oiltankerderail.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/oiltankerderail-248x175.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>SEATTLE (AP) &#8211; Two environmental groups are asking the U.S. Department of Transportation to immediately ban shipments of volatile crude oil in older railroad tank cars, citing recent explosive accidents and the department&#8217;s own findings that fiery oil train accidents pose an &#8220;imminent hazard.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The petition filed Tuesday by the Sierra Club and ForestEthics seeks an emergency order within 30 days to prohibit crude from the Northern Plains&#8217; Bakken region and elsewhere from being carried in the older tank cars, known as DOT-111s.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Investigators have reported the cars rupture or puncture even in accidents at slow speeds.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Obama administration has said it will propose a new rule by the end of the month governing tank cars that transport oil and ethanol.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But the petition says that will take too long, and in the meantime the shipments are putting cities along the rail lines at risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE (AP) &#8211; Two environmental groups are asking the U.S. Department of Transportation to immediately ban shipments of volatile crude oil in older railroad tank cars, citing recent explosive accidents and the department&#8217;s own findings that fiery oil train accidents pose an &#8220;imminent hazard.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The petition filed Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50084"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50161,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50084\/revisions\/50161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}