July 18, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Toronto Sun, July 18, 2014) MONTREAL — The new owner of the railway at the centre of the Lac-Megantic, Que., train disaster has had its own eerily similar troubles, documents show. Full story: Toronto Sun
July 16, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: United Steelworkers press release, July 16, 2014) MONTREAL — A $70,000 contribution from a United Steelworkers (USW) union local has boosted a legal defense fund for workers charged in the Lac-Mégantic rail tragedy. The Justice for USW Rail Workers Fund has...
July 16, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, July 15, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. refining industry has not agreed to a deal reached by oil producers and railroads on improving the safety of oil tank cars, it said on Tuesday, suggesting a key piece of anticipated reforms remains...
July 16, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, July 15, 2014) SEATTLE — Environmental groups asked the U.S. Department of Transportation to immediately ban shipments of volatile crude oil in older railroad tank cars, citing oil train wrecks and explosions and the agency’s own...
July 15, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Oregonian, July 14, 2014) PORTLAND, Ore. — A few years ago, trains hauled almost no oil in the United States. But a massive oil boom in North Dakota has pushed an unprecedented amount of crude into the country’s rail system. Full story:...
July 15, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bloomberg, July 14, 2014) NEW YORK — The oil industry and the railroads that haul its crude have offered U.S. regulators a joint plan to phase out a type of older tank car tied to a spate of fiery accidents, according to two people familiar with the proposal....
July 14, 2014 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 13, 2014) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Farmers and grain elevator operators are worried about millions of bushels of corn and soybeans from 2013 that still haven’t shipped, even as this year’s crop is in the ground. An overburdened rail...
July 14, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, July 13, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A string of fiery train derailments across the country, including one in Lynchburg in April, has triggered a high-stakes but behind-the-scenes campaign to shape how the government responds to calls for...
June 27, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source Poughkeepsie Journal, June 26, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — New York officials are reviewing a request by CSX to not publicly disclose movements of its freight trains carrying crude oil across the state. The state began receiving weekly information about the...
June 27, 2014 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, June 26, 2014) MONTREAl — The lawyer representing Thomas Harding, the engineer on the train in the Lac-Mégantic disaster, is outraged after information that could incriminate his client was made public by the courts. Full story: CBC...
