Read the Correspondence

This letter from Greenpeace to President Bush asks him to eliminate the risks posed by the use and transport of hazardous chemicals and place chemical security at the top of the homeland security agenda (01/23/04).

This letter from Greenpeace to Department of Transportation proposes that an immediate ban be imposed on the shipping of hazardous materials through highly populated communities (08/10/01).

This response from the Department of Transportation, just six days before September 11, admits it is not its policy to divert hazardous materials outside metropolitan areas (09/05/01).

This letter from Greenpeace to the Department of Transportation calls on the Department to address a report by the U.S. General Accounting Office that descibes serious deficincies in the federal effort to protect the nation's railroads (05/23/03).

This letter from Greenpeace to the Department of Transportation requests under the Freedom of Information Act to be supplied with documented policies and procedures regarding the transportation of toxic materials (07/01/03).

This letter from Greenpeace to the Secret Service warns that the failure to prohibit the shipment of large quantities of ultra-toxic chemicals through Washington D.C. poses a near and present danger to the president, national leaders and residents of our nation's capital (09/03/03).

This letter from Greenpeace to the Department of Transportation criticizes the September 30th Hazardous Materials Transportation Initiative (10/03/03).

This letter from Greenpeace to Senator Inhofe criticizes his Chemical Security Bill and calls for the use of safer technologies (10/23/03).

This letter from Greenpeace to President Bush demands that he address chemical security concerns (11/17/03).

This letter from Greenpeace to Amtrak alerts company officials to the dangers of CSX freight trains often carrying ultra-hazardous cargo such as chlorine and ammonia (01/23/04).

This letter from Greenpeace to the Maryland Department of Transportation alerts the DOT to the dangers of MARC trains travelling side by side with CSX freight trains which often carry ultra-hazardous cargo such as chlorine and ammonia (01/23/04).

This letter from Greenpeace to the Department of Transportation urges the DOT to support and endorse a bipartisan bill B15-0525, which would restrict the transport of hazardous chemicals through our nation's capital (01/23/04).

This letter from Greenpeace to the Transporation Security Agency urges the Agency to support and endorse the bipartisan bill B15-0525, which would restrict the transport of hazardous chemicals through our nation's capital (01/23/04).

This letter from Greenpeace to the Virginia Railways Express alerts officials to the dangers of VRE trains travelling side by side with CSX freight trains, which often carry ultra-hazardous cargo such as chlorine and ammonia (01/23/04).

This letter from Greenpeace to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority alerts officials to the dangers of Metro trains travelling side-by-side with CSX freight trains, which often carry ultra-hazardous cargo such as chlorine and ammonia (01/23/04).