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Feds Propose New Safety Rules as Oil Transport by Rail Increases

KQED News Staff

Jul 25, 2014 at

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This week, the federal government proposed new rules to improve the safety of trains carrying crude oil after a number of recent explosions, including one in Quebec that killed 47 people. The changes could take several years to kick in, but in the meantime more and more oil trains are coming to California.

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