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Michigan Currents -- November 2019
In this issue: PFAS | Work for Me, DTE | Winter is Coming | E.Coli | Empower Michigan | Budget Woes
Chesapeake Currents -- Fall 2019
In This Issue: Maryland 2020 State Legislative Preview | Maryland Local Roundup | Virginia 2019 State House Election Victories | Virginia 2020 General Assembly Legislative Preview | Anacostia Park and Community Collaborative
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