NEWCOMB — Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve appealed to Governor Andrew Cuomo to take action on a proposal by a private rail company to store hundreds of discarded oil tank cars on railroad tracks in the High Peaks. (suncommunitynews.com)
«Inspections of crude oil tank cars and the rail tracks they travel along are essential to maintaining the public safety and protecting all New Yorkers,» Governor Cuomo said. (13wham.com)
Keith Stewart, a climate and energy campaigner with Greenpeace Canada who has examined the increased use of oil trains, criticized railways in Canada and the United States for continuing to use older oil tank cars that he said were found to be unsafe more than 20 years ago. (nytimes.com)