in light of the recent dramatic rise in crude oil transportation by rail and barge. In response to the recent spate of fiery derailments, in March 2015 several Democratic senators proposed a bill that ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A train towing cars full of oil derailed Friday in Oregon's scenic Columbia River Gorge, sparking a fire that sent a plume of black smoke high into the sky and leading to ...

Most conventional tank cars in use have been criticized as ... That was magnified earlier this year when a runaway crude oil train deraiiled in the Quebec town of Lac Megantic, killing 47.

[Mike] lives in a temperate rainforest in Alaska (we figured from his website’s name) and uses a 570 gallon oil tank to supply his furnace. Until now, he had no way of knowing how much oil was ...