Category: Department of Transportation
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Fired because he couldn’t deliver pardon, Roger Stone was hired to aid Nigeria’s Christians days before Trump ordered deadly missile strike
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
“You’re fired!” That’s not Donald Trump this time. It’s Roger Ver, the crypto man, tax cheat and expatriate who really, really wants a presidential pardon. -
LNG ‘Bomb trains’ should stop rolling on FEC tracks after appellate court’s order
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Federal judges have struck down President Trump’s first-term decision that led to rules allowing so-called “bomb trains” transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) to roll through densely populated cities along the Florida East Coast Railway. -
As liquified gas exports surge at Port Everglades, risk of catastrophic accident on roads or rail increase
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
More than a half-million men, women and children in South Florida who live near truck and rail routes used to ship surging supplies of volatile liquefied natural gas (LNG) are at risk of a potentially catastrophic accident, according to a national non-profit environmental advocacy group. -
Biden moves to slow use of trains to haul hazardous LNG, but Trump’s permits let LNG ‘bomb trains’ roll on FEC tracks
By Ann Henson-Feltgen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Biden administration has proposed a rule that would temporarily halt the transportation of liquified natural gas (LNG) by rail – except in three states, including Florida, where those “bomb trains” regularly haul the highly flammable material through heavily populated neighborhoods along the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) tracks. -
Fortress forgave huge Trump loan, got federal permits to transport LNG by rail
By Ann Henson Feltgen and Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A multi-billion dollar private equity firm whose subsidiary was awarded two special permits by the Trump Administration to haul hazardous liquified natural gas (LNG), including by rail along Florida’s east coast, apparently forgave more than $100 million in debt owed by President Trump. -
Trump’s push to fast track LNG by rail collides with LNG projects in Ukraine
By Ann Henson Feltgen and Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
President Trump’s effort to ramp up rail transport of volatile Liquified Natural Gas in the U.S. collided spectacularly last week with his administration’s push to export LNG to Eastern Europe.
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