DC Circuit’s Radical Judges Signal Blocking LNG by Rail
A couple of far-left judges who sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (DC Circuit), one appointed by Joementia and the other by Lord Obama, threw verbal bombs at the idea of allowing LNG to be transported by rail cars. The two bought into the environmental hype about “bomb trains” and expressed their personally biased views that allowing LNG by rail would result in catastrophe. If their statements indicate anything, LNG by rail is as good as dead.
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