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Legislature increases scrutiny of oil trains, Puget Sound left out

The Legislature responded to the growing, alarming sight of oil trains passing through major population centers, taking time off from end-of-session partisan bickering Friday to pass the Oil Transportation Safety Act. The carbon economy arrives:   A coal train passes an oil train after tanker cars derailed in Magnolia last July.  Oil trains are increasingly used to carry Bakken crude oil from North Dakota to refineries on northern Puget Sound..

 

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