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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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April 20th, 2014 | Tags: Agriculture and trains, Amtrak's Empire Builder, barley and corn unmarketable, BNSF, BNSF rail traffic spiked, Bob Wisness, Canadian Pacific Railway, crops in piles on the ground, farmers in jeopardy, fuel stocks low at electric power plants, Grain and manufacturing taking a side track to crude oil, Grain on trains, Joseph Szabo, Keith Creel, Manufacturers and trains, North Dakota, North Dakota Bakken shale, North Dakota Grain Growers Association, rail service deteriorated, strained rail capacity in the Midwest, Texas depends on coal by rail, Texas Municipal Power Agency, wheat, Wyoming's Powder River Basin | Category: Feature, Multimedia, News, Photo, United States, Washington | BY CURTIS TATE McClatchy Washington Bureau April 10, 2014 A train carrying tanker cars filled with crude oil passes through St. Paul, Minnesota, on February 27, 2013. The crude oil is loaded in at terminals in North Dakota and Canada and taken to refineries in the east. JIM GEHRZ — Minneapolis Star Tribune/MCT
WASHINGTON — Grain producers, manufacturers and coal shippers told federal regulators Thursday that rail service has deteriorated drastically in the nation’s midsection in recent […]
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