W.Va. officials won’t release crude oil train shipment data

[Historic NY]

1. The failure to release, confirms then what is suspected.

"The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration published a legal notice stating that shipment data is “neither security-sensitive nor commercially-sensitive information that is protected by federal law.”

“At this time, [the] DOT finds no basis to conclude that the public disclosure of the information is detrimental to transportation safety,” the federal agency said in a notice published in the Federal Register."

Apparently WVa. thinks they are some higher authority on the matter.