Oil and rail industry lobbyists had frequent and privileged access to US federal regulators as they were drafting the new oil train rules released on May 1. So how much influence did they actually have over the final regulations, which will do nothing to stop the next oil train derailment and explosion?

We think the public has a right to know, but the Obama Administration has been stonewalling our Freedom of Information Act requests for months.

It’s time for Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx to come clean about the role industry lobbyists played in drafting the weak new oil train regulations.