TORONTO/WASHINGTON - Political pressure to quickly improve the safety of crude oil rail shipments intensified in Washington on Thursday, while Canadian officials said two of the cars involved in the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Federal investigators are blaming a fiery oil train derailment along the Oregon-Washington border on Union Pacific Railroad, saying the company failed to properly maintain its track.

WASHINGTON Two Senate committee chairmen asked the secretaries of transportation and energy on Thursday to take “prompt and decisive action” to resolve recent safety problems with crude oil ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – Railroads that haul volatile crude shipments have reached an agreement with U.S. transportation officials to adopt wide-ranging, voluntary safety measures after a string of ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) U.S. transportation officials said Wednesday that details about volatile oil train shipments are not sensitive security information, after railroads have sought to keep the ...

"A train derailment that spills oil in the headwaters of the Colorado River would be catastrophic," Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., wrote in a letter urging the Surface Transportation Board to conduct a ...

Anglers fish on the Colorado River near an idle Union Pacific freight train in western Grand County on June 12, 2023. (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline) With thousands of pages of briefs filed and two ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A proposed western railroad expansion aimed at boosting crude oil production in Utah is coming before the Supreme Court Tuesday in a case that could have wider impact on federal ...

Another round of targeted crude oil tank car and rail inspections that launched last spring found numerous minor violations as well as six so-called "critical defects" that had to be repaired ...