Explosive oil trains are feeling some serious heat this week

Grist
By Melissa CroninJul 6, 2016, 6:29 pm122 pts
Exactly three years ago from this Wednesday, a 74-car freight train carrying 30,000 gallons of crude oil rolled into the sleepy town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, at 1:15 p.m. It caught the wrong edge of a turn, exploded, and in seconds became the worst Canadian rail accident since 1864, killing 47 people.…

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