As many as 40 crude oil trains, each carrying a million or more gallons of the flammable liquid involved in several recent fiery derailments, roll through the Chicago area weekly, documents ...

Some North Dakota crude has been more volatile than gasoline. So when the trains have derailed, the flammable gases within have fueled those sky-high fireballs. That doesn't have to happen.

The Obama administration will unveil new rules Wednesday proposing more stringent safety standards on trains carrying crude oil and other flammable fuels. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is ...

Federal officials have issued an emergency order mandating that crude oil from North Dakota must be tested for flammability before it can be shipped by rail. The order comes after a series of ...

Other kinds of crude commonly transported by rail, such as sweet crude drawn from wells in the Dakotas, are extremely flammable and may contain hydrogen sulfide.

U.S. officials issue warning about crude oil from the Bakken formation in wake of three explosions in six months.

Action News is investigating the transportation of a highly flammable and hazardous chemical that is being shipped right through the center of Philadelphia.

Fiery Oil-Train Derailments Prompt Calls For Less Flammable Oil Trains carrying oil from North Dakota pass through American towns daily — and sometimes they derail and explode. The oil industry ...

Each day, long trains trailing hundreds of matte-black tank cars filled with highly flammable crude oil snake along the rails through New Jersey to a refinery in Linden. On one stretch through ...

Crude oil produced in North Dakota may be more flammable and prone to explosions than earlier thought, U.S. officials said on Thursday as they examine whether gas trapped in crude-by-rail ...