Our Patience With Oil Train Wrecks Is At An Ebb
Here’s a piece that covers one of the many hidden costs associated with petroleum: cleaning up oil train wreckages. That, in and of itself, wouldn’t qualify it as unique, or even terribly interesting, given how increasingly common these disasters are (they’ve increased in frequency 16 times from 2010 to 2014). What is worthy of note here however is the admission that accidents like these are inevitable, and that they are clearly the result of putting profits in front of the health of the environment and the people who live in it.
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