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Bradley Marshall, Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “We don’t believe that LNG by rail should have ever been authorized in the first place, so we look forward to the authorization being suspended.”

The explosion risk of transporting volatile liquefied natural gas in vulnerable tank cars through major population centers is off the charts. If it escapes containment, liquefied natural gas rapidly expands by 600 times its volume to become a highly flammable gas — and can turn into a “bomb train.” In one of the worst examples…

Jordan Luebkemann, Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “There is a really frustrating element to this as well. If you take the terrorism concerns very seriously and try to keep secret the routes this would be taking, then you are subjecting whole communities to this without getting their consent or giving them that awareness.”

The Trump administration made it easier to carry dangerous liquefied natural gas in tank cars. The Biden administration should change that.

Bradley Marshall, Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “It would easily destroy an entire city.”

Bradly Marshall, Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: "The Biden administration should take a very close look at reconsidering this rule in light of the overwhelming safety concerns. You are looking at a tremendous amount of energy that could destroy a very big area."

Challenge to dangerous "bomb train" federal rule

A proposed new federal rule poses major explosion risk throughout America

On the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration's proposed rule to allow liquefied natural gas transport by rail