Thank you to Christopher Harriss at Reckon News for writing this article and for interviewing partner Shawn Collins about the environmental impact of the recent railroad merger between Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern. In the article, Shawn wonders why the East Palestine disaster didn't prompt us to take a hard look at the lack of regulations for the railroad industry. He also discusses how the increased rail traffic from the merger will create more cancer-causing pollution from diesel exhaust in multiple communities. Here is a quote from Shawn:
"East Palestine was our chance to learn that we have a massively profitable runaway industry that is essentially unregulated. That derailment was our moment to reexamine everything that's going wrong in the rail industry and why we don't have meaningful regulation. Instead, they have allowed the merger and now we'll have 11,000 more dangerous trains on the tracks."
Read the full article titled "The next East Palestine? US neighborhoods brace for huge increase in train traffic as rail merger takes effect" here.
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