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Ban Unsafe Oil Trains
Clean Water is part of the Coalition to Ban Unsafe Oil Trains, a grassroots movement that originated in Bergen County, New Jersey and calls for the immediate ban of unsafe transportation of crude oil in our community.
An oil boom in the Bakken region of North Dakota has caused a surge in freight train traffic hauling crude oil to the East Coast. In Bergen County, CSX trains carrying toxic and highly-volatile Bakken crude oil pass through Northvale, Norwood, Harrington Park, Closter, Haworth, Dumont, Bergenfield, Teaneck, Bogota, Ridgefield Park, and Ridgefield, NJ every week. These trains-
Healthy Communities: Cumulative Impacts
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Coalition for Healthy Ports NY NJ
Clean Water Action is playing a pivotal role as chair the Coalition for Healthy Ports (CHP), a broad coalition of environmental, labor, faith, community, environmental justice and business organizations that seek to create sustainable ports in New York and New Jersey.
Green Water Infrastructure
Green infrastructure uses innovative approaches to reduce storm water and sewage overflows, protect NJ’s water resources and drinking water, create green jobs and reduce climate change impacts including flooding and salt water intrusion. Green water infrastructure includes:
Rain and roof gardens, rainwater harvesting, and permeable pavements. Planting trees, restoring wetlands, creating stream buffers and functioning urban forests. Water efficient appliances and landscaping. Wind and solar power. Nutrient recycling in community gardens. Onsite wastewater treatment and safe reuse. ProgramsCrude Oil Trains in Baltimore: Too Dangerous for the Rails
Big Oil companies’ push to extract and refine more extreme forms of oil has led to unprecedented transport of explosive and climate-polluting crude oil on our nation’s rail lines.
Crude oil train traffic grew 5,100 percent from 2008 to 2014 due to the rapid increase in fracking for oil in the Bakken shale fields of North Dakota and in tar sands oil extraction in Canada. An alarming number of derailments and explosions across North America has followed.
In Maryland, crude oil trains are a danger to communities near rail lines across the state and to Baltimore in particular. The oil industry has