Tell the Biden administration: Keep our communities safe from dangerous, undisclosed chemical shipments.

A giant train full of chemicals is burning in Ohio, nearby residents are being evacuated ... and for days, first responders couldn't even be sure what dangerous toxins they were dealing with.

The growing practice of shipping dangerous chemicals, fossil fuels and other hazardous materials by rail -- all too often without informing communities what's being shipped through their backyards -- is too big of a risk for us to idly accept.

That's why we're calling on the Biden administration to crack down on these dangerous chemical trains, and to ensure that the public -- including first responders -- has a right to know what chemicals are being shipped through their communities.

Subject: Keep our communities safe from dangerous, undisclosed chemical shipments

Your Letter:

This week's derailment of a chemical train in eastern Ohio makes it all too clear that our communities need more protections.

We're calling on your administration to take steps to:

* Increase the right to know of the general public and first responders about trains coming through their communities;
  * Impose greater level of inspections and oversight of trains carrying hazardous materials;
  * Require freight companies to pay the true cost of shipping dangerous materials across the nation, including mandating proper insurance policies to cover the cost of a hazardous train disaster and safety violation fines;
  * Improve and update America's ailing rail infrastructure.

This derailment was in Ohio, but freight trains loaded with dangerous and undisclosed chemicals crisscross the entire country, with few or no rules to keep the communities that they pass through safe.

No community should have to deal with an emergency like this, and it's inexcusable that days into the disaster neighbors and first responders couldn't even be sure what chemicals they're facing.

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