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<div class="byline environment" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="field field-name-field-sources field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><span class="field-items"><span class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">DeSmogBlog</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[1]</span></span></span></span> / <em>By</em> <em><a href="http://www.alternet.org/authors/justin-mikulka-and-steve-horn" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Justin Mikulka and Steve Horn</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[2]</span></em></div><div class="story_comments" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="small"><img border="0" alt="comments_image" src="http://www.alternet.org/sites/all/themes/custom/alternet/images/talk_box_environment.jpg" style="border: 0px;" /><span class="environment comments_link" /></span></div><div class="headline" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="node-title">White House Meeting Logs: Big Rail Lobbying Against "Bomb Train" Regulations It Publicly Touts</h1></div><div class="the_body body_environment clearfix" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="big_story_tools_bottom_container"><div class="authors_signup" /><div class="talk_box"><span class="small" /></div><div class="clear"> </div></div><div class="clear"> </div><div class="story_tools_bottom"><div class="text-size" /><div class="story_tools_email" /><div class="story_tools_print" /><div class="story_tools_share" /></div><div style="clear: left;" /><div class="story-date"><em><span class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"><span class="field-items"><span class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2014-06-23T06:28:00-07:00">June 23, 2014</span></span></span></span> </em> | </div><div><p>The Obama <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/inforeg_default" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[3]</span> has held the majority of its <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/06/15/obama-white-house-agency-quietly-coddling-big-oil-bomb-trains-regulations" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">meetings on the proposed federal oil-by-rail safety regulations</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[4]</span> with oil and gas industry lobbyists and representatives.</p><p>But OIRA meeting logs reviewed by DeSmogBlog reveal that on June 10, the<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/14825" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">American Association of Railroads (AAR)</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[5]</span> and many of <a href="https://www.aar.org/aboutus/Pages/Our-Members.aspx%23.U583MI1dVYA" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">its dues-paying members</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[6]</span> also <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/viewEO12866Meeting?viewRule=false&rin=2137-AE91&meetingId=212&acronym=2137-DOT/PHMSA" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">had a chance to convene with OIRA</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[7]</span>. </p><p>Big Rail has <a href="http://www.csx.com/index.cfm/customers/safety-security/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">talked a big game to the public about</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[8]</span> its <a href="http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/bnsf-says-safety-first/article_f1ff5cc6-e12e-11e3-9aee-001a4bcf887a.html" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">desire for increased safety measures</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[9]</span> for its trains carrying oil obtained via <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/fracking-the-future/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”)</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[10]</span> in the<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/7174" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Bakken Shale</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[11]</span>. What happens behind closed doors, the meeting logs show, tells another story. </p><p>At the June 12-13 <a href="http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/conferences/crude_by_rail.html" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Railway Age Oil-by-Rail Conference</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[12]</span>, just two days after rail industry representatives met with OIRA, American Association of Railroads President <a href="http://www.du.edu/transportation/faculty-board/ed-hamberger.html" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Edward Hamberg</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[13]</span>, former assistant secretary for governmental affairs at the <a href="http://www.dot.gov/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[14]</span>, made the case for safety. </p><p>“Railroads believe that federal tank car standards should be raised to ensure crude oil and other flammable liquids are moving in the safest car possible based on the product they are moving,” <a href="http://www.rtands.com/index.php/freight/class-1/aars-hamberger-outlines-steps-taken-to-increase-safety-at-railway-ages-crude-by-rail-conference.html?channel=277" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">said Hamberg</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[15]</span>.</p><p>“The industry also wants the existing crude oil fleet upgraded through retrofits or older cars to be phased out as quickly as possible.”</p><p>Yet despite public declarations along these lines, proactive safety measures were off the table for all four of Big Rail's presentations to OIRA. </p><p>Though private discussions, the documents made public from the meeting show one consistent message from the rail industry: safety costs big bucks. And these are bucks industry is going to fight against having to spend.</p><p><strong>Massive War Room</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/viewEO12866Meeting?viewRule=false&rin=2137-AE91&meetingId=212&acronym=2137-DOT/PHMSA" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Those present at the June 10 OIRA meeting</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[7]</span> included representatives from AAR, the American Short Line & Regional Railroad Association, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/8265" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Union Pacific</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[16]</span>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/8243" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Burlington Northern Santa Fe</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[17]</span> (<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/8244" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">BNSF</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[18]</span>), <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/16160"><font color="#ff0000">CSX Corporation</font></a><span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[19]</span>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/13324" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Norfolk Southern</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[20]</span> and the DOT.</p><p>Akin to the gargantuan war room in the film “Dr. Strangelove,” 26 people took part in the session. </p><p>Invitees included <a href="http://phmsa.dot.gov/portal/site/PHMSA/menuitem.6f23687cf7b00b0f22e4c6962d9c8789/?vgnextoid=6597df9cbd1a0110VgnVCM100000762c7798RCRD&vgnextchannel=816f143389d8c010VgnVCM1000008049a8c0RCRD&vgnextfmt=print" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Meredith Kelsch</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[21]</span>, senior attorney for DOT; <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/orest-dachniwsky/10/666/296" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Orest Dachniwsky</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[22]</span>, associate general counsel for BNSF; <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/robert-schmidt/70/443/a22" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Robert Schmidt</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[23]</span>, senior manager of operations and casualty analysis for Union Pacific; and <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/richard-theroux/13/a/519" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Richard Theroux</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[24]</span>, who has worked at the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Office of Management and Budget</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[25]</span> — parent of OIRA — for nearly three decades.</p><p><strong>“19th Century Technology”</strong></p><p>The heading on the first slide of <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/20140610135826983.pdf" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">CSX’s presentation for OIRA</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[26]</span> stated, “ECP brakes are expensive and do not offer material safety advantages.”</p></div></div>
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<p><b>CSX CORP.</b>, a natural resources and transportation company, is one of 2 major railroad systems (the other being the <a href="http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=NSC1">NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP.</a>) serving Greater Cleveland. CSX Corp. is the descendant of 2 of the oldest railroads in America, the <a href="http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=COR">CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILROAD</a> and the <a href="http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=BOR">BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD</a>, but the corporation is also composed of several railroads important in the early history of Cleveland. The CSX Corp., with headquarters in Richmond, VA, was formed by the merger of Chessie System, Inc., and Seaboard Coastline Industries on 1 Nov. 1980. In addition to owning coal fields and gas and oil wells, the corporation operated railroads, barge lines, trucking companies and pipelines. One of the chief parts of CSX was the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, created in 1968 by the merger of the Seaboard Air Line and the Atlantic Coast Line railroads. In 1971 the Seaboard Systems gained control of the Louisville & Nashville and Monon systems, thereby giving it tracks reaching New Orleans, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Chicago. The Seaboard System never had tracks or offices in Cleveland. The other major component of CSX is the Chessie System, the creation of the merger of the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Baltimore & Ohio railroads in 1962. It is through the Baltimore and Ohio and then the Chessie that CSX plays a significant role in Cleveland's railroad history.</p>
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The <b>Baltimore and Ohio Railroad</b> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporting_mark" title="Reporting mark">reporting marks</a> <b>B&O</b>, <b>BO</b>) was one of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_railroads_in_the_United_States" title="Oldest railroads in the United States">oldest railroads in the United States</a> and the first <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier" title="Common carrier">common carrier</a> railroad. It came into being mostly because the city of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a> wanted to compete with the newly constructed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie_Canal" title="Erie Canal">Erie Canal</a> (which served <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Line_of_Public_Works" title="Main Line of Public Works">another canal</a> being proposed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>, which would have connected <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh" title="Pittsburgh">Pittsburgh</a>.<sup class="Template-Fact" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from December 2009" style=" white-space: nowrap;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><i>citation needed</i></a>]</sup> At first this railroad was located entirely in the state of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a> with an original line from the port of Baltimore west to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook,Maryland" title="Sandy Hook, Maryland">Sandy Hook</a>. At this point to continue westward, it had to cross into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> (now <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia" title="West Virginia">West Virginia</a>) over the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potomac_River" title="Potomac River">Potomac River</a>, adjacent to the confluence of the Potomac and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenandoah_River" title="Shenandoah River">Shenandoah</a> rivers. From there it passed through Virginia from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpers_Ferry,West_Virginia" title="Harpers Ferry, West Virginia">Harpers Ferry</a> to a point just west of the junction of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson_Creek" title="Patterson Creek">Patterson Creek</a> and the North Branch Potomac River where it crossed back into Maryland to reach <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland,Maryland" title="Cumberland, Maryland">Cumberland</a>. From there it was extended to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_River" title="Ohio River">Ohio River</a> at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeling,West_Virginia" title="Wheeling, West Virginia">Wheeling</a> and a few years later also to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkersburg,_West_Virginia" title="Parkersburg, West Virginia">Parkersburg, West Virginia</a>.</p>
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It is now part of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSX_Transportation" title="CSX Transportation">CSX Transportation</a> (CSX) network, and includes the oldest operational railroad bridge in the USA. The B&O also included the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiper_Railroad" title="Leiper Railroad">Leiper Railroad</a>, the first permanent horse-drawn railroad in the U.S. In later years, B&O advertising carried the motto: "Linking 13 Great States with the Nation." Part of the B&O Railroad's immortality has come from being one of the four featured railroads on the U.S. version of the board game <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly%28game%29" title="Monopoly (game)"><i>Monopoly</i></a>, but it is the only railroad on the board which did not serve <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_City,New_Jersey" title="Atlantic City, New Jersey">Atlantic City, New Jersey</a>, directly.</p>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline">Slavery reparations lawsuit</span></h3>
<p>In March 2002, FleetBoston - bought by BofA in 2004 - along with insurance company <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Aetna" title="Aetna">Aetna</a> and railroad company <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CSX_Transportation" title="CSX Transportation" class="mw-redirect">CSX Transportation</a> were named in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in New York "seeking damages for abuses suffered by slaves and accusing the companies of profiting from slavery". FleetBoston traces its roots back to a bank started by John Brown, a notorious Rhode Island slave trader. <sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bank_of_America_Corp.#cite_note-75" title="">[76]</a></sup>
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<b>CSX Corporation</b>, "based in Jacksonville, Fla., is one of the nation's leading transportation companies, providing rail-based transportation services." <sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CSX#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup></p>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CSX#Board"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Board</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CSX#Contact"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Contact</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CSX#Related_Sourcewatch"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Related Sourcewatch</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CSX#References"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>
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<p>Accessed June 2010: <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CSX#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a></sup></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Donna_M._Alvarado" title="Donna M. Alvarado">Donna M. Alvarado</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alexandre_Behring&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alexandre Behring (page does not exist)">Alexandre Behring</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_B._Breaux&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John B. Breaux (page does not exist)">John B. Breaux</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steven_T._Halverson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Steven T. Halverson (page does not exist)">Steven T. Halverson</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Edward_J._Kelly_III" title="Edward J. Kelly III">Edward J. Kelly III</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gilbert_H._Lamphere&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gilbert H. Lamphere (page does not exist)">Gilbert H. Lamphere</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_D._McPherson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John D. McPherson (page does not exist)">John D. McPherson</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Timothy_O%27Toole" title="Timothy O'Toole">Timothy O'Toole</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_M._Ratcliffe" title="David M. Ratcliffe">David M. Ratcliffe</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Donald_J._Shepard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Donald J. Shepard (page does not exist)">Donald J. Shepard</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_J._Ward" title="Michael J. Ward">Michael J. Ward</a></li>
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<p>URL: <a href="http://www.csx.com" class="external free" title="http://www.csx.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.csx.com</a>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline">Related Sourcewatch</span></h3>
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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_L._Leatherwood" title="Richard L. Leatherwood">Richard L. Leatherwood</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Deaver" title="Michael Deaver">Michael Deaver</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Elizabeth_E._Bailey" title="Elizabeth E. Bailey">Elizabeth E. Bailey</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alliance_for_Energy_and_Economic_Growth" title="Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth">Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Yukon_Pacific" title="Yukon Pacific">Yukon Pacific</a></li>
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<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CSX#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.csx.com/?fuseaction=about.profile" class="external text" title="http://www.csx.com/?fuseaction=about.profile" rel="nofollow">About</a>, CSX, accessed June 24, 2010.</li>
<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CSX#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://investors.csx.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=92932&p=irol-govboard" class="external text" title="http://investors.csx.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=92932&p=irol-govboard" rel="nofollow">Directors</a>, CSX, accessed June 24, 2010.</li>
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 27, 2011 /Coal Geology/ — CSX Corporation (CSX) announced today its continued participation in Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF) Climate Corps for 2011. EDF Climate Corps places top MBA students in <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">companies</span> to develop practical, actionable <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">energy efficiency</span> plans that cut costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
As a result of its participation in the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD10">program</span> last year, CSX and the company’s fellow identified savings of more than $160,000, 1.5 million kWh of electricity (enough to power 140 homes), and 940 metric tons of CO2 (equivalent to removing 150 SUVs from the road) annually.
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