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| Source: Friends of the Columbia Gorge (Portland OR) |
The Center for Biological Diversity has released a study that shows over 1/2 million California school students attend school in oil train blast zones.
As reported on in their web site (linked below):
- More than 1 million (approximately 1,178,000) California students attend school within a mile of confirmed oil train routes;
- Of those, roughly 521,000 go to school within a half-mile of oil train routes, the area that federal officials say should be initially evacuated in all directions in case of a single tanker on fire;
- Another 226,000 attend school within a mile of proposed oil train routes.
For more information, visit the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) web site:
Or read about the study at DeSmog Blog:
Half a Million California Students Attend School In Oil Train Blast Evacuation Zones.
For more on this subject, see:
Routing oil trains through densely populated California towns is a bad idea. San Luis Obispo Tribune.
Half a Million California Students Attend School In Oil Train Blast Evacuation Zones.
For more on this subject, see:
Routing oil trains through densely populated California towns is a bad idea. San Luis Obispo Tribune.
Would you like to know how many students are in the oil train blast evacuation zone in your state? Check out the CBD methodology.NIA SCHOOLS