The local government here in Washington, D.C. is poised to act if the Bush administration continues to fail to act. The problem: "Ninety-ton rail cars that regularly pass within four blocks of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC, contain enough chlorine to kill 100,000 people within 30 minutes and could endanger 2.4 million people," according to a recent report. The Bush administration has failed to address the problems of hazmat transport through the nation's capital and other major metropolitan areas, and it has also failed to take needed steps -- such as requiring immediate fingerprint-based criminal background checks of hazmat drivers -- to make hazmat transport more secure. Now, the Wash. Post reports, D.C.'s mayor and city council are ready to enact local legislation banning hazmat cargo unless the Bush administration acts in the next two weeks.