Truckers, Tired of Being Exposed to Hazardous Waste, Call on the Feds for Help

[Omaha Steve]

They say the oil and gas industry is ignoring HAZMAT procedures, endangering them and the communities they drive through.
Kim Kelly July 18, 2025



https://inthesetimes.com/article/oil-and-gas-exploitation-truckers-trasportation-hazardous-materials

A seemingly unlikely coalition of oil and gas workers and environmentalists have joined forces to ask the federal government for help.

On June 4, the driver advocacy group Truckers Movement for Justice and Ohio Valley Allies, Earthjustice, Oilfield Witness and several other environmental groups sent a letter to Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and top officials at the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. They made a simple request: that regulations around the transportation of hazardous materials be enforced.

It’s not the kind of thing one should need to ask, really, but these particular regulations concern oil and gas waste. The industry generates both an enormous amount of toxic byproducts and the kind of money — and therefore, power — that both boggles the mind and rules nations.

That equation makes for an actively inadequate regulatory enforcement — one which, according to the letter, is leaving workers and communities behind in the (toxic) dust.

FULL story at link above.