August 27, 2014 | DOT, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Oregonian, August 26, 2014) PORTLAND, Ore. — U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat and outspoken advocate for improving oil train safety, has repeatedly criticized loopholes in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s proposed safety rules. It may...
August 27, 2014 | DOT, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Portland Press Herald editorial, August 21, 2014) PORTLAND, Maine — A major milestone was reached this week in the follow-up to the oil train explosion that killed 47 people last summer in Lac-Megantic, Quebec: Canadian investigators released a final report...
August 15, 2014 | DOT, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, August 14, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thousands of oil train tankers soon to be deemed obsolete in the United States are unlikely get a second life in Canada’s oil sands industry, undercutting a U.S. government forecast that the costly cars will...
August 6, 2014 | DOT, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Politico, August 6, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Most freight railroad insurance policies couldn’t begin to cover damage from a moderate oil train accident, much less a major disaster. And the Department of Transportation’s own database of oil train incidents is...
July 24, 2014 | DOT, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Journal News, July 23, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Older railroad tank cars carrying explosive Bakken crude oil or ethanol would be phased out over the next two years under a proposed regulation announced Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Full...
July 22, 2014 | DOT, Headlines
(Source: U.S. Department of Transportation press release, July 21, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Congress considers legislation to avoid a shortfall of the Highway Trust Fund, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and 11 of his predecessors offered the following open...
June 2, 2014 | DOT, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(Source: Sacramento Bee, June 1, 2014) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Bee’s editorial board met with Ray LaHood, who spent 14 years in Congress before joining President Barack Obama’s administration in 2009 as transportation secretary. A senior policy adviser at the...
May 13, 2014 | DOT, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2014) NEW YORK — Most energy companies operating in North Dakota’s Bakken Shale haven’t provided safety regulators with the requested testing data on crude oil they ship by rail across the country, the U.S....
May 8, 2014 | DOT, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, May 7, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Transportation Department issued an emergency order Wednesday requiring that railroads inform state emergency management officials about the movement of large shipments of crude oil through their states...
May 8, 2014 | DOT, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: New York Times, May 7, 2014) NEW YORK — Calling the movement of crude oil by rail an “imminent hazard” to the public, the federal Department of Transportation said on Wednesday that railroads would be required to notify local emergency responders whenever oil...
