Workers use heavy equipment to begin to move one of several train cars which had been hauling crude oil and derailed a week earlier, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020, in Custer, Wash. The cause of the ...

WASHINGTON — An emergency order requiring trains hauling crude oil and other flammable liquids to slow down as they pass through urban areas and a series of other steps to improve the safety have been ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Bureau of Statistics (BTS) recently released its Progress Towards Safer Rail Tank Cars Transporting Flammable Liquids: 2025 Report, highlighting the ...

DICKINSON, N.D. -- As regulators and industry debate crude-by-rail safety, one industry-backed study has found Bakken crude fits within safety standards for the rail cars it’s currently transported in ...

DENVER, June 5 (Reuters) - The North Dakota Petroleum Council is set to release a study later this month adding to the number of industry voices concluding that Bakken crude oil is safe to move by ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. pipeline safety agency on Thursday issued a safety warning that the type of crude oil produced in the Bakken region in the northern United States "may be more ...

When a BNSF freight train carrying six cars of liquefied petroleum gas derailed near Manuelito, New Mexico, in 2024, the resulting fire shut down more than 100 miles of an interstate highway. The ...