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Related: About this forumTrumps LNG Bomb Trains Rule Suspended
WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that it suspended a Trump administration rule that allowed liquified natural gas (LNG) to be transported by rail, a policy that would have put countless communities at risk of fires and explosions.
The rail policy was a key component of a proposal by the company New Fortress to build a massive new liquified gas export terminal in Gibbstown, NJ, right along the Delaware River. In April, DOT denied the company a special permit to transport liquified gas by rail, and todays suspension of the federal rule is another blow to the project.
The Trump administration regulation had been challenged in court by several environmental advocacy groups and a coalition of states, due to the massive risks to public health and safety that would be presented by a gas-by-rail scheme.
Over the past two years, communities across the region have come together to oppose the New Fortress bomb trains scheme, which would pose the risk of catastrophic damage to dozens of communities in South Jersey and Pennsylvania.
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/trumps-lng-bomb-trains-rule-suspended
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(23,447 posts)Carried by truck? Or is it just normal natural gas that's liquified at the filling stations? The latter seems safer, if it's economically viable to have the equipment distributed.