A train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded Monday in central West Virginia, sending oil into the Kanawha River and forcing the shutdown of the Fayette County’s main water intake plant while ...

DODGE COUNTY – Cleanup continues on the freight train derailment and crude oil leak in Dodge County. About 22 cars of a 95-car train derailed near Reeseville, a village within the town of Lowell, Aug.

NEW TOWN, N.D. – The Bakken crude on the oil train that derailed in Oregon last week met North Dakota’s oil conditioning order that requires companies to remove the most volatile gases. The Federal ...

Those fireball oil train derailments that have become increasingly common should continue unabated because no one -- not government regulators, not the oil companies and not the railroad industry -- ...

Government inspections of railroads that haul volatile crude oil across the United States have uncovered almost 24,000 safety defects, including problems similar to those blamed in derailments that ...

GALENA, Ill. (AP) — The two rail cars that split open and burst into flames during a western Illinois oil train derailment this week were retrofitted with protective shields to meet a higher safety ...

CASSELTON, N.D. (AP) - A fiery oil train derailment's near-miss of a small North Dakota town had its mayor angrily calling for federal officials to do more to guarantee the safety of the nation's ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Federal and local authorities were investigating a fiery oil car train derailment north of Seattle near where two people were arrested last month and accused of attempting a ...

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. -- A freight train carrying crude oil derailed Wednesday in East Chicago, Indiana. The CSX train derailed about 5:20 p.m. in the 4600 block of Euclid Avenue, East Chicago and CSX ...

About 22 cars of a 95-car freight train derailed Aug. 15 near Reeseville, a village located within the town of Lowell. No one was injured, but crude oil spilled, which has required cleanup efforts led ...