a state legislative committee launched a probe of oil tank truck accidents. Existing laws already required certain vehicles, including school buses and oil tankers, to stop at all rail crossings, ...

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 ...