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Safer oil train transport is coming ... eventually

Jun 6, 2016
The train crash and subsequent oil spill in Oregon has renewed calls for safety.
People protest oil trains, which have a record of explosion and fire disasters, near an over-sized puppet of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at the March to Break Free from Fossil Fuels on May 14, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.
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