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 obtaine… ...

Smoke and flames erupt from the scene of an Illinois oil train derailment March 5, 2015. Safety experts say regulators have ignored steps that would make oil trains less likely to go off like a ...

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This story was reported with Inside Energy, a public media collaboration focusing on America's energy issues. View Inside Energy's time-lapse map tracking crude oil shipments here, and read more ...

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 ...

U.S. regulators have confirmed a suspicion that’s been growing since the deadly train derailment in Lac-Mégantic: that crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken formation may be more flammable ...

In Camden, the trains can be found near a playground. "I'm extremely concerned now because it's the first time I've heard of crude oil being transported here that flammable," Steve Womack of ...

News of increased crude oil transportation by rail from Canada has raised this question again. The short answer is: truck worse than train worse than pipeline worse than boat. But it depends on ...

Crude oil tank cars pictured at Zenith Energy's terminal in Northwest Portland. The company is building a new unloading station, expected to be fully operational in several weeks, that will allow ...

Iowa officials plan to alert the public about trains carrying one million gallons or more of extra-flammable crude oil across the state - despite railroads' argument the information should be kept ...