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Derailing the Polluters - Impact Litigation Stops Crude By Rail In Its Tracks
Crude By Rail, Environmental Justice Teddy Basham-Witherington Crude By Rail, Environmental Justice Teddy Basham-Witherington

Derailing the Polluters - Impact Litigation Stops Crude By Rail In Its Tracks

Moving oil by train means that hazardous oil train routes would cross through eight of the state’s ten largest cities and through the downtowns of many smaller cities and towns. Increased oil train traffic is a threat to all Californians but brings the greatest risk to environmental justice communities: low income communities of color that already live with a disproportionate and elevated health and safety risk from industrial spills, fires and explosions, as well as, chronic, daily air and water pollution.

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