Canada proposed tough new oil tank car standards on Wednesday and said even improved tank cars coming into service now...
Articles by Randall Palmer
The Canadian government is looking at extending the insurance burden for crude-by-rail disasters beyond just railways and is weighing the...
Australia, this year’s G20 chair, sees little consensus among the Group of 20 leading economies to take major new steps...
Governments should require companies shipping crude oil by rail to carry enough liability insurance to make up for shortfalls in...

North American regulators should phase out the type of rail car involved in last July’s deadly Lac-Megantic crash “sooner rather...
Canada is considering classifying crude oil as a higher-risk, dangerous product, requiring emergency response plans for shipment by rail following...
As investigators try to piece together how a parked oil freight train broke free and demolished the heart of a...
If European countries are not prepared to bail out fellow euro zone members, maybe they should just abandon the whole...
On Monday Canada became the first country to announce it would withdraw from the Kyoto protocol on climate change, dealing...