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department and volunteer firefighter interest organizations to help them increase the number of trained front line firefighters available in their communities The goal of SAFER is to enhance the local...across the river significant barge and oil tanker traffic and the Newburgh Beacon Bridge which spans the Hudson carrying Interstate Route 84 The proliferation of Bakken oil has increased the community s concern...of gallons of light crude oil are transported by the river and rail each week...

000 privately owned train bridges across the entire country are audited in any given year In New York State there are only three specialists assigned to over 3 000 privately owned train bridges and the specialists...Pacific and used predominantly for freight shipping including the transport of hazardous material and crude oil However under current law while public roadway bridges must be inspected at least every other year...privately owned railroad bridges do not have this same requirement...

these critical links nationwide said Senator Schumer I will continue my push for the FRA to hire more train bridge inspectors so we can ensure that private companies are doing their job and keeping these bridges...000 privately owned train bridges across the entire country are audited in any given year In New York State there are only three specialists assigned to over 3 000 privately owned train bridges and the specialists...Pacific and used predominantly for freight shipping including the...

Stabilizing Crude Would Make Post Derailment Deadly Explosions Less Likely Add Essential Layer Of Protection For New Yorkers Schumer Urges Feds To Develop A High National Standard To Help Prevent Disasters...Disasters Promised Study On Oil Volatility Is Chugging Along Slower Than An Uphill Train Calls on Feds To Speed It Up So We Have The Data Needed to Make Safety Changes ASAP Schumer To Feds Publish Study and...Standards for Volatile Crude Oil Before It s Shipped Through Backyards On the heels...

inspections to prevent derailments and sustains investments into tank car research and other ongoing crude by rail safety initiatives The bipartisan funding agreement funds Amtrak at 1 495 billion 105 million...Infrastructure and Safety Improvement CRISI grants to support capital projects implementation of Positive Train Control and highway rail grade crossing improvements 25 million for Federal State Partnership for...Transit and 4 freight railroad systems that carry shale oil coal and other...

Last Month A CSX Cargo Train One Car Was Carrying Gunpowder Traveling Through Batavia Rochester On a Track That Is No Stranger To Trains Carrying Flammable Crude Derailed After Powerful 78 MPH Wind Storm...Storm Many Lives Could Have Been Put At Risk If Train Carried Crude Schumer Urges Feds To Prioritize Effort To Stabilize Highly Volatile Crude Making Oil By Rail Safer Schumer Batavia Dodged a Bullet So...So Feds Need To Fix Shipping Standards Before It s Too Late In the wake of the CSX train...

On Wednesday Evening A CSX Freight Train Traveling In Rockland On a Track That Is No Stranger To Trains Carrying Flammable Crude Derailed After Slamming Into A Truck In Haverstraw At The New Main Street...Been Put At Risk If Train Carried Crude Schumer Urges Feds To Prioritize Effort To Stabilize Highly Volatile Crude Making Oil By Rail Safer In the wake of last week s freight train derailment in Haverstraw...for oil stabilization standards and to quickly implement new requirements that oil be...

For Your Trains U S Senate Minority Leader Charles E Schumer today joined residents small business owners and local officials to call on CSX to immediately find another area to park idling trains that currently...community in half impacting residents and small businesses In addition Schumer said these idling trains pose a significant safety concern because parts of the Hudson Valley are mountainous with few roads...relocating the idling trains that prevent the community from passing through the...

Critical Component To Make Oil By Rail Safer Now Schumer Successfully Pushed Feds To Begin Process to Make The Actual Crude Oil Contained In Oil Cars Less Volatile Recent Oil Train Derailment In Oregon 16...Derailed 4 Caught Fire Area Residents Were Evacuated More Than 40 000 Gallons Of Crude Oil Were Spilled Schumer We ve Got to Keep Crude by Rail Safety on Track U S Senator Charles E Schumer today announced that...step toward requiring oil companies to stabilize their highly flammable crude...

For All 3 000 Train Bridges In NYS While Fed Inspector Has Impossible Task of Auditing All Privately Owned NY Bridges Railroad Companies Are Responsible For Fixing Their Own Bridges Trains Cross These Bridges...Bridges Every Day Carrying Passengers Freight Which Includes Dangerous Materials and Crude Oil Schumer Says Increasing The Amount Of Federal Railroad Bridge Inspectors For Auditing Tracks Should Be A Main...Conditions Schumer FRA Call Is Step In Right Direction But More Inspectors Are...