Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has introduced legislation to require railroads to share information regarding oil shipments with state emergency responders and allocate tens of millions of dollars in financial assistance towards emergency preparedness and risk reduction in local communities.  Wyden’s Crude Oil Advanced Tracking Act mandates that railroads share their manifest information with local emergency responders in every community through which their materials will travel, allocates $15 million in grants to support the development, improvement or implementation of emergency plans and training for communities through which crude oil trains regularly pass, and provides $25 million of financial assistance to support local projects that reduce risk or help protect communities.  Wyden says the bill is in response to multiple accidents involving trains carrying crude oil, including a 2016 derailment in Mosier that spilled 42,000 gallons of crude oil and sparked a large fire.