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California Currents | Fall 2018
In This Issue: Voting For California's Environmental Values | Clean Water Action Promotes Climate Emergency Declarations in the Bay Area | Clean Water Action's Fight for a Safe Drinking Water Fund Will Continue in 2019 | ReThink Disposable Team Welcomes Auditor Grace Lee | Reducing Air Pollution and Improving Health in Lost Hills
Crude 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
