{"id":21635,"date":"2013-09-06T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utu.org\/?p=21635"},"modified":"2013-09-06T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T13:25:00","slug":"unsafe-rail-cars-carry-oil-through-u-s-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/unsafe-rail-cars-carry-oil-through-u-s-towns\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsafe rail cars carry oil through U.S. towns","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of freight trains carrying oil across America has soared in the past five years, but federal officials warn that the massive steel tank cars that carry most of that oil through towns and past schools \u2013 the same cars that exploded in Quebec this summer, killing 47 \u2013 may be unsafe and prone to rupture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe clock is ticking,\u201d said Jim Arie, fire chief of the Chicago suburb of Barrington, Ill., where the number of trains that rumble across Main Street has grown from five a day to nearly one an hour. \u201cAs long as these rail cars are out there and they\u2019re being used, potential exists for a major disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete story at <a href=\"http:\/\/investigations.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/09\/05\/20343288-danger-on-the-tracks-unsafe-rail-cars-carry-oil-through-us-towns?lite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of freight trains carrying oil across America has soared in the past five years, but federal officials warn that the massive steel tank cars that carry most of that oil through towns and past schools \u2013 the same cars that exploded in Quebec this summer, killing 47 \u2013 may be unsafe and prone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[1494,2034],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - 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