Railroads Resist Oil Companies’ Demands for Storage in Rail Cars Citing Safety Concerns April 13, 2020 By Devika Krishna Kumar and Laura Sanicola Railroads are clamping down on rising demand from oil companies to store crude in rail cars due to safety concerns,...
Contaminated Oil Linked to U.S. Reserves Raises Safety Concerns April 15, 2019 By Catherine Ngai Exxon Mobil Corp. is the latest company to raise concerns that a stockpile of U.S. government crude is tainted with...
15,000 Schools Located Within ‘Blast Zone’ of Oil Trains September 8, 2015 Thousands of U.S. schools sit along rail corridors used to carry toxic substances such as crude oil and would be...
Environmental Groups Sue, Charge Oil Train Safety Rules Inadequate May 18, 2015 By Ayesha Rascoe Seven environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging safety rules issued earlier this month for trains carrying oil, arguing...
Oil Industry Goes to Court to Block Oil Train Safety Rules May 14, 2015 A U.S. oil industry group has launched a legal challenge to federal rules aimed at tightening safety standards in oil-by-train...
U.S., Canada Agree on Oil Train Safety Mandates May 5, 2015 By Jim Snyder and Josh Wingrove Almost two years after an unattended oil train derailed and exploded in Quebec, killing 47 people, the U.S. and Canadian...
U.S. Issues ‘Urgent’ Oil Train Safety Recommendations April 7, 2015 The National Transportation Safety Board on Monday called for the faster replacement of rail cars that carry flammable liquids like...
‘Degassing’ North Dakota Crude Oil Before Shipping Among Safety Ideas May 14, 2014 After a spate of fiery derailments, the scramble to make North Dakota’s Bakken crude oil safer when it’s being transported...
CSX Oil Tank Cars Derail, Catch Fire in Lynchburg, Virginia May 1, 2014 By Thomas Black and Christine Harvey A CSX Corp. crude train derailed in Lynchburg, Virginia, Wednesday, sparking a fire in at least three tank cars, spilling...
Safety Board Says Rail Oil Tanker Rules Should Be Put on Washington Fast Track April 25, 2014 By Joan Lowy Spurred by a series of fiery train crashes, a push by government and industry to make safer tank cars used...