North Dakota's Meaningless New Bakken Oil Regulations Will Keep Bomb Trains Rolling

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By Justin MikulkaDec 11, 2014, 10:00 am75 pts
New regulations purported to make Bakken crude safer for transport instead allow business as usual for the oil and rail industries moving explosive Bakken crude oil in unsafe DOT-111 rail cars. The regulations announced Tuesday by the North Dakota Industrial Commission state that: “The goal is to produce…

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