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Weekend ethanol-carrying train crash in Pennsylvania cleaned up

Things seem to have gotten back to normal in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, where a train jumped the rails on Friday and then burned for three days. The train was made up of 86 tanker cars, and nine of them leaked ethanol, which then burned. About 50 people who live near the accident site were evacuated, but no one was injured. The unburned ethanol was pumped from the leaning tankers and the tracks should have been cleared for other traffic as of yesterday, according to the AP. The cause of the accident seems to have been an emergency brake that ... Read more →

Trains transporting ethanol could bottleneck in Chicago Sebastian Blanco

  It's no secret that there are ethanol plants all over the country, as we've had lots of stories about plants being built in Louisiana and Oregon and the 101 plants currently producing the ...

Weekend ethanol-carrying train crash in Pennsylvania cleaned up 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Things seem to have gotten back to normal in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, where a train jumped the rails on Friday and then burned for three days. The train was made up of 86 tanker cars, and nine of them leaked ethanol, which then burned. About 50 people who live near the accident site were ...

Trains transporting ethanol could bottleneck in Chicago 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

  It's no secret that there are ethanol plants all over the country, as we've had lots of stories about plants being built in Louisiana and Oregon and the 101 plants currently producing the fuel. We've also written about how this increase in ethanol production is causing dramatic increases in ...


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