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(Source: Bismarck Tribune, April 29, 2019)

BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota’s congressional delegation is urging the governor of Washington state to veto legislation they say would result in a “de facto ban” of crude-by-rail traffic from the Bakken. The bill prohibits refineries and other facilities from unloading oil from a rail car unless the oil has a vapor pressure of less than 9 pounds per square inch, a lower limit than what North Dakota requires.

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