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May 7th, 2014 | Tags: American Petroleum Institute, Anthony Foxx, Bakken oil, Deborah Hersman, DOT-111s, emergency order on oil trains, National Transportation Safety Board, nine oil train derailments, North Dakota, NTSB, oil shipped across Canada, oil shipped across U.S., oil train tank cars, oil trains, Quebec, safety advisory on tank cars voluntary, Sen. Maria Cantwell, train explosions, trains of 100 cars, U.S. crude oil production | Category: Feature, News, United States, Washington | Federal government issues emergency order requiring states be informed of oil train shipments
By JOAN LOWY
The Associated Press May 7, 2014 WASHINGTON The Transportation Department issued an emergency order Wednesday requiring that railroads inform state emergency management officials about the movement of large shipments of crude oil through their states and urged shippers not to use older model tanks cars that are easily ruptured in accidents, even at slow speeds.The emergency order requires that each railroad operating trains containing […]
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February 18th, 2014 | Tags: America's oil boom, Bakken oil, crude oil moving by rail, freight trains hauling oil, Lac-Megantic, Montana and North Dakota Bakken oil, oil train derailments, Quebec | Category: Community Rights, Health, Multimedia, News, Photo, United States, Washington | MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press
Billings, Mont. –At least 10 times since 2008, freight trains hauling oil across North America have derailed and spilled significant quantities of crude, with most of the accidents touching off fires or catastrophic explosions.
FILE – In this Dec. 30, 2013, file photo, a fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment in Casselton, N.D. Trains carrying millions of gallons of explosive liquids, including crude oil, are likely to continue rolling […]
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