(Source: The Columbian, March 3, 2015)
VANCOUVER, Wash. — U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell said Tuesday that she plans to introduce federal legislation calling for stricter regulations on oil-by-rail tankers and a swifter phase out of older tankers. Cantwell, D-Washington, told U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx that the “enormous increases in volume of oil trains and what we’re doing on safety” are issues of “utmost importance to the people of the Northwest.”
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