Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. Many proportionals to france port crude oil on the railroad is proposing health and safety concerns. A train derailed in virginia sparking a fire and forcing hundreds to be evacuated. In 2014, 1. 3 million gallons of oil were spilled nationally more than the combined total of every year since 1975. Many officials and residents are opposing planning to increase crude oil shipments, proposed storage and transfer facility in pittsburgh raised further controversy. How much of a danger does crude by rail pose and are there any alternatives . Joining me now for a look at the issue are tom, consumer editor with ktuv. Yvonne with the California Office of spill prevention and response and molly samuel. Why is there so much concern . There are two on the table in the bay area. The pittsburgh one you mentioned, the west pack oil terminal that would wring in crude by rail, ship and pipeline and there is another, the valero refinery wants to bu
Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. Many proportionals to france port crude oil on the railroad is proposing health and safety concerns. A train derailed in virginia sparking a fire and forcing hundreds to be evacuated. In 2014, 1. 3 million gallons of oil were spilled nationally more than the combined total of every year since 1975. Many officials and residents are opposing planning to increase crude oil shipments, proposed storage and transfer facility in pittsburgh raised further controversy. How much of a danger does crude by rail pose and are there any alternatives . Joining me now for a look at the issue are tom, consumer editor with ktuv. Yvonne with the California Office of spill prevention and response and molly samuel. Why is there so much concern . There are two on the table in the bay area. The pittsburgh one you mentioned, the west pack oil terminal that would wring in crude by rail, ship and pipeline and there is another, the valero refinery wants to bu
threaten doctors, scare women. i saw that through all the years i was at planned parenthood. we just saw that in illinois. there was the bombing in the planned parenthood office there. that is what i worry about. i am from texas. the overwhelming sentiment you here in texas from health care providers and clinicians, it is one of fear. that is a state where they are not only protesting, but you know also have a bounty hunter system where you can turn anyone who helps a woman who is seeking access to safe and legal abortion. this is not the kind of country that people want and that voters demonstrate. the republicans did not listen. they are not listening. you talk about republicans. i want to ask you about what you make of democrats and how they are handling this. especially the biden administration. do you think they are doing enough? i think that the biden
it s still a very active legal landscape right now. what about the issue of what the fbi is calling domestic terrorism? they are offering $25,000 rewards for information on recent attacks against ten reproductive health care clinics. how concerning are these attacks and the implications for the women, the emotional stress on women and health care workers? of course, it s horrifying to think that this is happening in the united states. but it is. you are right, these attacks on doctors, on health care providers. but i think you mentioned a point that to me is really important. that is, what the republican party through these abortion bans, the bounty hunter system that is in place in places like texas, it has created fear across the country for women, for young people, for families. that, to me, is why we have seen such a rejection of these
leave their jobs, and leave their kids with someone else. young people, and i know that we were talking about earlier that the young woman 26 years old who not only was indicted in south texas, but put in jail for two days and of course, under texas law, not able to actually ask for help from a friend, a relative, someone from her church or her school, because of the bounty hunter system that is in place in the state of texas that puts all of those people at risk, and so the implications are dire, but one thing that, john, that people are i know that you are all begins to get to this is that there are so many worse bills on the books that have not been actually implemented, because roe. texas is a good example where if in fact roe falls, there s a book, there s a bill on the books that would criminalize all people, any person, any doctor, any nurse that helps with an abortion put them in jail,