The Latest On: Florida
Alisa Coe, Attorney, Florida Regional Office, Earthjustice: “It looks like we’ll be headed back to trial court to try enforce the will of Floridians who voted overwhelmingly for land conservation.”
Bradley Marshall, Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “To send that amount of energy in a rail car that has a history of derailing, breaching and exploding, seems incredibly dangerous without any kind of safety analysis of those tank cars. You could see a lot of interest in all of a sudden using trains as pipelines and see it really take off, sort of like you did see with crude by rail. Regulators didn't ensure the safety of transport of crude by rail and then we had explosions all across the country.”
Tania Galloni, Managing Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “People are tired of the Florida Legislature stomping on the rights of citizens who want to make decisions to protect their local communities.”
Thomas Cmar, Deputy Managing Attorney, Coal Program, Earthjustice: “What’s most significant about this settlement is it appears the EPA caught the company red-handed not using the controls they already had in place.”
