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A new Trump administration rule relaxing guidelines that govern the transport of liquefied natural gas could create “bomb trains” with enough explosive power to level whole cities, environmental groups say. A coalition of organizations led by the nonprofit Earthjustice has sued the administration, challenging the rule, which is scheduled to go into effect on Monday.
Separately, fourteen states and the District of Columbia are also suing the Trump administration to review the rule and declare it unlawful. The National Transportation Safety Board and the National Association of State Fire Marshals oppose it as well.
Under the new rule, trains would be allowed to transport up to 30,000 gallons of liquified natural gas (LNG) per tank, significantly more than has ever been allowed in the U.S., and there will be no restrictions on the number of LNG tanker cars in a particular train, nor on the routes these trains may travel, so they will be free to pass through dense population centers.
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......But shifting LNG transport to the railways could be a catastrophe, the lawsuits assert. “There’s a very good reason liquefied natural gas has never been shipped by rail in this country, and that’s because it’s wildly unsafe,” said Joseph Otis Minott, executive director of the Clean Air Council, which joined the lawsuit with Earthjustice. “I don’t want these dangerous trains going through my neighborhood, and trust me, you don’t either.”
New Trump Rule Could Create 'Bomb Trains,' Environmentalists Say
Two lawsuits have been filed over the Trump administration's 'wildly unsafe' plan to transport liquified natural gas on railroads.www.rollingstone.com
You think this can only happen in Beirut:
Not if the Orange Idiot has his way.
I wonder if those trains are owned by Warren Buffet, who loves to transport Carbon Products across the US?
As of today, liquefied natural gas is not shipped by rail. This Monday the rules change to allow LNG on rail. . 30,000 gallons of LNG will be permitted per tanker car and there could be fifty tanker cars full of LNG rolling through cities. An explosion would make the Beirut explosion look like child’s play.
Again, when split up like that they can't detonate like that.
Okay, then why has transport of LNG by rail been barred until now?
Because more than likely Nimby idiots kept harping about it being soooo dangerous, and yet you have gas like that all over the place.
You morons do realize this is a result of you idiots fighting the building of high pressure pipelines for transporting gas, right?
Based on what I am reading you are the moron.
I just explained what happened. It's because of you idiots fighting pipelines.
The gas is in demand, and they figured out another way to transport it.