(Source: Think Progress, June 8, 2016)
NEW YORK — On Friday, June 3, a Union Pacific train carrying Bakken crude oil derailed on a tiny strip of land running between the Columbia River and the small town of Mosier, Oregon. Sixteen train cars carrying crude oil derailed, and four of those cars were breached, spilling oil and igniting in flames. Following the derailment, a rainbow sheen appeared on the Columbia, near the derailment — a sign that some of the spilled crude had found its way into the river. All told, the derailment spilled 42,000 gallons of Bakken crude into the soil, wastewater system, and Columbia River near Mosier.
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