States, railroads at odds over oil train information.
The absence of public information from
railroads motivated Landon to co-found the Vancouver Action Network this
year to hold railroads and oil companies accountable. In mid-April his
group launched Washington State Train Watch, with residents in
Vancouver, Camas, Spokane, Everett and the Columbia River Gorge
monitoring oil trains. The effort included recording the number of oil
trains moving through communities, tracking the placards that identify
what's inside a tank car and using scientific equipment to monitor toxic
air emissions from tank cars.
The group publishes the information
it gathers by way of a blog, Twitter feed, Facebook and YouTube. The
12-day effort in April was successful, Landon said. So much so, the
all-volunteer group plans to continue the train-watch program this
summer. The ongoing effort will include helping enforce the federal
government's order that railroads disclose oil-train information "and
possibly bust the railroads for violations," Landon wrote in a May 29
blog post.
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