North Dakota Rail Oil Safety Program May Be Shelved July 10, 2017 By JAMES MacPHERSON The end of the line may be in sight for a North Dakota safety program aimed at lowering the risk...
Pennsylvania Steel Firm Denies Liability for 2013 Train Derailment August 8, 2016 A Pennsylvania steel company named in a lawsuit over a fiery oil tanker train derailment near Casselton, N.D., says it...
Railroad Blamed for Fiery Oil Train Derailment On Oregon Washington Border June 27, 2016 By MATTHEW BROWN and GILLIAN FLACCUS Federal investigators on Thursday blamed Union Pacific Railroad for a fiery oil train derailment along the Oregon-Washington border, saying the...
Large U.S. Cities Prep for Oil Train Disaster September 4, 2015 By MICHAEL RUBINKAM and GEOFF MULVIHILL They rumble past schools, homes and businesses in dozens of cities around the country – 100-car trains loaded with crude...
Bickering Mars Oil Rail Safety Discussions April 25, 2014 By JOAN LOWY Spurred by a series of fiery train crashes, a push by U.S. government and industry to make safer tank cars...
Feds Suggest Two-Man Crew to Improve Oil Train Safety April 11, 2014 By JOAN LOWY Responding to a series of fiery train derailments, federal regulators said Wednesday they will propose that trains transporting crude oil...
CP Rail Advocates Shipping Insurance After Lac-Megantic Oil Train Deprailment, April 7, 2014 By Randall Palmer Governments should require companies shipping crude oil by rail to carry enough liability insurance to make up for shortfalls in...
North Dakota Oil Train Derailment Cleanup Almost Complete March 21, 2014 By JAMES MacPHERSON Cleanup of an oil train derailment on the outskirts of a small southeastern North Dakota town “is all but complete,”...
Idaho to See Increase in Oil Trains March 13, 2014 The number of oil trains moving through north Idaho is expected to increase in coming years, raising fears of a...
Emergency Response Review Ordered for New York Oil Rail Transport January 29, 2014 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday ordered state agencies to review and update emergency response plans for rail shipments...