In California, people of color are dangerously close to oil train disasters [Grist.org]

Samantha Sangenito 7/9/154:00 AM

There’s been a lot of consternation over oil trains recently. In the U.S. and Canada, almost two dozen crude-carrying trains havederailed in the past two years — exploding into giant balls of fire in some cases, and in others, killing people. And while the Obama administration released new oil train safety rules on May 1, they remained so lax and full of holes that some environmental groupsimmediately sued.

In California, as more and more crude arrives by rail, more people will find themselves within the “blast zone,” a one-mile evacuation area recommended by the U.S. Department of Transportation. As a report released Tuesday finds, California’s “blast zone” lands squarely on the shoulders of people of color.

[For more of this story, written by Sara Bernard, go to http://grist.org/news/in-calif...oil-train-disasters/]

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