Trump administration rolls back Obama-era oil train rules
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December 8, 2017
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Trump administration has angered environmental groups and residents of the Columbia River Gorge by rolling back a 2015 rule on oil train safety.
The Obama administration rule change required trains carrying highly explosive liquids to have electronically controlled pneumatic brakes installed by 2021 — systems intended to help prevent fiery oil train wrecks like the one that happened in the Oregon last year, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported Thursday.
A Union Pacific train derailed in the small Columbia River town of Mosier in June 2016, spilling 42,000 gallon...
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