August 3, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bergen Record, August 2, 2015) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. — After backlash from lawmakers and firefighters, the federal government is reversing course and will continue to require rail companies to make public some information about the movements of trains carrying...
August 3, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The News Journal, July 30, 2015) WILMINGTON, Del. — Western wildfires and shifting oil markets have drastically trimmed the number of oil train cars coming into the Delaware City Refinery, company officials said Thursday. Full story: The News...
August 3, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, August 2, 2015) PHILADELPHIA — A BNSF train pulled out of a terminal in North Dakota’s Bakken Shale region last month, hauling 106 tank cars filled with crude oil on a westward journey to a refinery near Ferndale, Wash. It...
August 3, 2015 | FRA, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Business Insurance, August 2, 2015) NEW YORK — Industry experts are critical of a new U.S. rule on railroads concerning safely transporting flammable liquids, including the Bakken crude blamed in part for the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, explosion and fire two years...
July 31, 2015 | FRA, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 30, 2015) HARRISBURG, Pa. — U.S. Sen. Bob Casey on Thursday called for increasing the number of federal rail bridge inspectors, saying the government has too few workers overseeing the safety of more than 70,000 bridges in the...
July 31, 2015 | FRA, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Grand Forks Herald, July 28, 2015) BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota regulators are expected to sign a deal with the Federal Railroad Administration on Wednesday that will allow the state to launch a rail safety program funded by the Legislature and proposed...
July 30, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, July 29, 2015) HOUSTON — A private Texas company already well-versed in treating and moving super-light crude oil has acquired a majority stake in a an oil-by-rail terminal in Port Arthur with plans to expand into refined fuels and other liquids....
July 30, 2015 | CSX, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Knoxville News Sentinel, July 30, 2015) KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Authorities continue to monitor air and water near the site of a July 1 train derailment in Maryville while train car loads of contaminated dirt are hauled away. Full story: Knoxville News...
July 30, 2015 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Toronto Star, July 29, 2015) OTTAWA — Two years after a runaway freight train exploded in Lac-Mégantic, killing 47 people, Transport Canada and the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration unveiled new rules Wednesday aimed at preventing a repeat of the tragedy....
July 30, 2015 | FRA, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Federal Railroad Administration press release, July 29, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today issued a final rule to prevent unattended trains that carry crude, ethanol, poisonous by inhalation (PIH), toxic by inhalation...
