May 8, 2014 | DOT, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: U.S. Department of Transportation press release, May 7, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) issued an Emergency Order requiring all railroads operating trains containing large amounts of Bakken crude oil to notify State...
April 30, 2014 | DOT, Headlines
(Source: U.S. Department of Transportation press release, April 29, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today unveiled a long-term transportation bill he is sending to Congress for consideration as the House and Senate face...
April 28, 2014 | DOT, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, April 28, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — New rules on moving hazardous materials like crude oil on U.S. railroads could settle a dispute between the energy industry and rail companies that boils down to a fraction of an inch of steel in the frame of...
April 28, 2014 | DOT, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Poughkeepsie Journal, April 26, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx plans to propose comprehensive rules this coming week to deal with safety issues arising from recent deadly accidents involving trains carrying crude oil or...
April 25, 2014 | DOT, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, April 24, 2014) CASSELTON, N.D. — The head of the U.S. Department of Transportation said Thursday during his visit to the site of a fiery oil train derailment in North Dakota that his office plans next week to outline options for...
March 31, 2014 | DOT, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, March 28, 2014) BILLINGS, Mont. — U.S. transportation officials rebuked the oil industry Friday for not giving up information regulators say they need to gauge the danger of moving crude by rail, after several accidents highlighted the...
March 7, 2014 | DOT, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Wall Street Journal, March 6, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Transportation Department amended its recent emergency order to apply even more pressure to crude-by-rail shippers to get them to classify their oil accurately to ship in the right kind of...
March 6, 2014 | Commuter Rail, DOT, Headlines
(Source: Daily Gazette, March 5, 2014) CAPITAL REGION, N.Y. — Contracts will be put out to bid this spring for the first of several Schenectady-area projects aimed at drastically improving the speed of the state’s passenger rail service. Full story: Daily...
March 5, 2014 | Commuter Rail, DOT, Headlines
(Source: U.S. Department of Transportation press release, March 4, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today praised the Administration’s vision for transportation as outlined in his $90.9 billion budget requested for the U.S....
February 27, 2014 | DOT, Headlines
(Source: U.S. Department of Transportation press release, February 26, 2014) ST. PAUL, Minn. — U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will join President Barack Obama today to announce that $600 million will be made available to fund transportation projects...
