(Source: Forbes, May 4, 2015)
NEW YORK — New regulations from the U.S. Department of Transportation declare that details about crude oil rail shipments are exempt from public disclosure. This ends DOT’s existing regulations that required railroads to share with state officials, and the public, information about shipping large volumes of dangerous crude oil by rail. These disclosure requirements were put in place last year after a Bakken crude oil train-wreck in Lynchburg, Va.
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