(Source: Albany Times Union, June 6, 2016)
ALBANY, N.Y. — On Monday, Federal Railroad Administration officials said the oil, being shipped westward in a 96-car train from the Bakken fields of North Dakota, had a vapor pressure of 9.2 pounds per square inch (psi) — about the same level as crude oil that exploded in a derailment in July 2013 in the small Canadian city of Lac Megantic, Quebec, killing 47 people and causing more than $1 billion in damage. In December of 2015, the New York State Attorney General’s Office petitioned the federal government for a new regulation that would cap vapor pressure 9.0 psi or less for crude oil shipped in rail tanker cars.
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