"Swinomish tribal leaders, wary of the potential for tragedy and tired of negotiations that have gone nowhere, are suing Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway to stop the company from transporting extra-flammable Bakken crude oil across reservation lands."

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· 11 hr. ago

Looks like trains can have sick days even if workers don’t get ‘em….

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· 11 hr. ago

Jfc, no wonder the PNW has been pushing for more ecological safeguards! I don't want another Norfolk Southern happening up here! It's only a matter of time

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· 2 hr. ago

The hilarious thing is that on Nextdoor down here, there were people trying to pin this on "eco-terrorists".

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· 13 hr. ago

I like the way it looks like the traino is taking a little nap.

*of course, ecological disaster is terrible. Yet, the train does look cute napping in the grass like a tire doggo.

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· 13 hr. ago

Just need to tuck it in with a little more dirt

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· 4 hr. ago

LOL RIGHT? like he’s just a sleepy lil guy

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· 11 hr. ago

What’s going on with all these train derailments lately?

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· 10 hr. ago

There are around 3 train derailments per day in the US. In the 70s there were at least 4x as many, derailments have actually decreased in frequency by a large amount over the last few decades.

Most derailments happen in switchyards where impacts are minor, but there are multiple every week that happen on through tracks. The news largely ignored them until the Norfolk Southern derailment opened people's eyes up to how consequential one derailment can be.

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· 11 hr. ago

Train derailments are super common. They usually have little impact, so they don’t make the news.

The toxic spill is Ohio was newsworthy nationwide because of the nasty stuff that spilled.

The derailment in Anacortes is such a small event, it probably won’t make the Seattle evening news.

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· 10 hr. ago · edited 9 hr. ago

They aren't new, it's just that talking about them has become a politically convenient way for Republicans (who exacerbated the problem) to swipe at the Biden administration (who are part of the solution).

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· 4 hr. ago

Thank goodness it only leaked into the ground! /s

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