WASHINGTON – In the wake of last week’s
massive West Virginia explosion where derailed crude oil tanker cars went
up in flames creating a fireball in the sky, US Senator Charles Schumer
called on the US Department of Transportation and the Office of Management
and Budget to expedite the release of finalized rules and new comprehensive
car standards for trains carrying oil.
The senator said the train that derailed and exploded in West Virginia
was made up of CPC-1232 cards, which are not significantly safer than
the rupture-prone DOT-111 cars.
Schumer and a host of local, state and other federal representatives are
concerned about those crude oil-transporting rail cars as similar ones
transport oil up and down along the Hudson River waterfront and pass right
through Rockland, Orange and Ulster counties on their way north and south.
