This excellent blog post is at the BerkeleyLaw Legal Planet, by Jayni Foley Hein, executive director of UC Berkeley School of Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE). Most if not all of her recommendations are applicable to states other than California.
The Moving Forward Network has begun developing Oil by Rail Collection in the MFN Resource Clearinghouse, to assist MFN members and other community and environmental groups working on these issues. Please check it out, and suggest other documents we should add.