TV Special Reports
- ‘A Danger on Rails’ – The New York Times
- A timeline of recent oil train crashes in the US and Canada – AP News
- A Timeline of Oil Train Derailments In Pictures – Sightline Institute
- Can You Tell If a ‘Bomb Train’ Is Coming to Your Town? It’s Complicated – Gizmodo
- City Maps Show Who Lives Closest to Dangerous Blast Zones – Next City
- Four rail-borne risks moving through American communities – The Hill
- How often do train wrecks spill hazardous chemicals into neighborhoods? Here’s what data shows – The Columbus Dispatch
- Propane “Mega-Bomb” Trains: What Could Go Wrong? A recent study by the U.S. Department of Transportation forecasts 207 train derailments over the next 20 years involving oil and ethanol trains, causing billions of dollars in damages and untold loss of life. Now we have a new type of “bomb train” to add to the list: propane bomb trains – HuffPost.
- Rail workers: Long bomb trains are endangering the public – Raw Story
- The scary truth about -bomb trains- moving through your town – Canada’s National Observer
- The True Dangers of Long Trains – ProPublica
- There’s an Easy Fix to Stop Oil “Bomb Trains,” So Why Isn’t Government Requiring It? – HuffPost Impact
- What Happens When a Toxic Bomb Train Hits Your Town? – LA Progressive
- New Federal Rule Could Create Horrifying ‘Bomb Trains’. If it becomes easier to transport liquid natural gas by train, these groups suggest America could have a Hiroshima on its hands. – Popular Mechanics
- New Trump Rule Could Create ‘Bomb Trains’ Capable of Leveling a City – Rolling Stone
- What is a “Bomb Train” and why has the Trump administration legalized them? – Boing Boing
- Buffalo’s Bomb Trains – Truthout
- Exploding Trains, Explained – Mother Jones
- Get Used to It- DOT Predicts Oil Train Derailments Will Be Commonplace Over Next Two Decades – Common Dreams
- Groups File Legal Challenge to Stop “Bomb Trains” – Earthjustice
- How corporate greed and deregulation fuel threat of more bomb trains: researcher – Alternet.org
- Off the Rails: Oil trains keep jumping the tracks, setting towns ablaze, and contaminating water supplies. Here’s why – NRDC
- Oil Train Blast Zone Website Lets You See Your Proximity to Bomb Trains – DeSmog
- Protect Your Community from “Bomb Trains” – NRDC
- The Bomb Train Derailment That Sparked a Resistance in the Columbia River Gorge – NRDC
- Toxic Trains and the Terrorist Threat – Center for American Progress
- Warnings Mount About the Dangers of Long Freight Trains – Truthout
Local News
- A Runaway Train Explosion Killed 47, but Deadly Cargo Still Rides the Rails – The New York Times
- Another ‘Bomb Train’ Just Exploded in North Dakota – Vice
- ‘Bomb trains’- A crude awakening for Richmond, Calif. – Al Jazeera America
- “Bomb Train” concerns continue in Albany County – WRGB
- ‘Bomb train’ derails in North Dakota, explosion forces village evacuation — RT
- Chicago Activists Protest ‘Bomb Trains’ Carrying Oil through Local Neighborhoods – Chicago Monitor
- Chicago at heart of crude oil shipments, data show – Chicago Tribune
- Consider the dangers of ‘bomb trains’ traveling through New York – syracuse.com
- Critics warn of potential ‘bomb train’ rail disaster in New Jersey – Raw Story
- Derailed in D.C.- ‘Bomb Trains,’ Poison Tracks and My Chemical Exposure – HuffPost
- Fiery Ohio train derailment raises railroad safety questions – Chicago Tribune
- Fred Millar: ‘Bomb trains’ are safety risks to U.S. cities like St. Louis – St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Illinois oil train derailment threatens Mississippi River – Los Angeles Times
- In Chicago, ‘bomb trains’ hidden in plain sight – Energy News Network
- Investigation continues around oil-train derailment, fire in Custer, Whatcom County – The Seattle Times
- Lac-Megantic: The runaway train that destroyed a town – BBC News
- Natural gas ‘bomb trains’ may be coming to a railroad crossing near you – CITY News
- No ‘bomb trains’: 14 states aim to take new rule on LNG transport off the rails – StateImpact Pennsylvania
- Ohio train: Americans blind to toxic dangers rolling through towns – BBC News
- Oil Train Tragedy in Canada Spotlights Rising Crude Transport by Rail – National Geographic
- The Bomb Train Derailment That Sparked a Resistance in the Columbia River Gorge – NRDC
- The Scariest Threat You Didn’t Know About – Chicago Magazine
- Toxic-Freight Threat a Challenge to U.S. Cities – NPR
- Train carrying bombs, hazardous material derails in Nevada – NBC News
- Trains carrying toxic chemicals collide in US, 2 dead – Breitbart
- Train carrying hazardous chemicals derails in Louisiana – CBS News
- Train cars carrying crude oil derail and burn north of Seattle – CNBC
- Special Investigation- Trains transporting hazardous chemicals across region – 6abc Philadelphia
- Where is Baltimore’s ‘Oil Bomb’ Train Blast Zone? – Baltimore Fishbowl
- Another bomb train accident highlights regulatory failures – NationofChange
- “Bomb Train” Derails and Explodes in West Virginia, Two Towns Evacuated – Alternet.org
- These New Jerseyans Want to Bring “Bomb Trains” to a Halt – NRDC
- Two More ‘Bomb Train’ Explosions Should Be ‘Wake-Up Call to Politicians to Stop These Dangerous Oil Trains’ – EcoWatch
- Two Years After Oil Train Disaster, Profound Scars Remain in Lac-Megantic – Common Dreams