In the latest legal challenge to the federal government’s new crude-by-rail rules, two Illinois municipalities on Wednesday filed a petition asking a Chicago-based federal appeals court to review the rules, saying regulators didn’t go far enough. The village of Barrington and the city of Aurora jointly filed the petition, asking for the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to set aside and remand parts of the rules. The municipalities are specifically challenging an exemption that allows some trains to continue using dangerous older tank cars, as well as a phaseout schedule for certain tank cars hauling flammable liquids that they deem to be “unreasonably long.” They also want the rules to require railroads to provide electronic documentation of the contents of the train to emergency workers when an accident occurs. The Transportation Department didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The Federal Railroad Administration doesn’t comment on pending […]