Sebastian Jones
Freelance writer, Acworth, GA. and Washington, D.C.
- 2014
Fellowship Title:
- How Safe are America’s Energy Pipelines?
Fellowship Year:
- 2014
- Co-Fellow: Marcus Stern
FELLOWSHIP STORIES – (1)
BOOM: North America’s Explosive Oil-by-Rail Problem
December 6, 2015
U.S. regulators knew they had to act fast. A train hauling 2 million gallons of crude oil from North Dakota had exploded in the Canadian town of Lac-Megantic, killing 47 people. Now they had to assure Americans a similar disaster wouldn’t happen south of the border, where the U.S. oil boom is sending