In Chicago, 'bomb trains' hidden in plain sight

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Midwest Energy News

More trains carrying volatile crude oil pass through Chicago than anywhere else in the country, as reported by the Chicago Tribune last week.

And the oil trains are passing through and sitting idle for hours in the same low-income, largely black and Latino Chicago neighborhoods that have been at the center of high-profile environmental justice struggles, including Pilsen and Little Village, where residents fought to shut down the city’s two coal-fired power plants.

Throughout March, Midwest Energy News documented numerous oil trains passing through Chicago and the suburbs, and also found through interviews that many residents alongside the tracks have no idea about the dire risk they would face if there were an oil train accident.

http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2015/04/09/in-chicago-bomb-trains-hidden-in-plain-sight/

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