March 7, 2014 | Headlines, NTSB, Oil Train
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, March 6, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board today announced it will hold a public forum on April 22-23 in Washington that will examine the safety issues associated with...
March 7, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, March 6, 2014) BILLINGS, Mont. — Federal regulators offered more details Thursday on testing requirements for oil transported by rail and warned companies against skirting the rules after a spate of explosions caused by crude train...
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 7, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, March 6, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Government regulators are taking too long to write new rail safety regulations in light of recent fiery oil train accidents and a deadly commuter train derailment, senators complained Thursday....
March 7, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Star Tribune, March 6, 2014) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Virtually all of the potentially unsafe rail cars carrying crude oil across the country remain in service, hauling highly flammable liquid, an official from the American Petroleum Institute (API)...
March 6, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: McClatchy News Service, March 6, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — While supporters and opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline have been busy debating the controversial proposal, the oil that it’s intended to move has found another carrier _ one that didn’t...
March 6, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Hill, March 5, 2014) Lawmakers are worried about increasing accidents involving rail cars transporting crude oil across the U.S. Today at 10 a.m., a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation subcommittee will hold a hearing on rail safety, taking a...
March 6, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Inside Climate News, March 5, 2014) BROOKLYN, N.Y. — As federal regulators continue investigating why derailed tank cars filled with crude oil have exploded in the past eight months, energy experts say part of the problem might be that some producers...
March 5, 2014 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Progressive Railroading, March 3, 2014) Fortress Investment Group L.L.C. has petitioned the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to gain control of the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway Ltd.’s (MMA) new entities after they become approved carriers....
March 5, 2014 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Columbian, March 4, 2014) COLUMBIA, Wash. — BNSF Railway is investing millions of dollars in safety improvements on tracks and the purchase of new oil tanker cars, railroad officials told Clark County business leaders during an invitation-only...
