Communities Demand Environmental Review of Plans to Increase Transport of Tar Sands Oil by Rail and Barge

EcoWatch: Citizens, local community leaders and environmental groups, representing thousands of area residents, mobilized to call on the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to immediately order a full public safety and environmental review of the proposed expansion of an oil terminal in the Port of Albany today at the agency’s first information forum to allow the public to ask questions and express concerns about the plan. A DOT-111 car, which is currently the type of train car......

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