May 17, 2014, 5:00pm Northwest
As crude oil shipments have proliferated and raised safety concerns across the country, railroads have refused to acknowledge their routes and frequencies, details that anyone patient enough to stand trackside could learn. Read story
May 15, 2014, 5:00pm Business
A resolution under consideration by the Vancouver City Council urges decision-makers to reject a proposal to build the Northwest's largest oil-handling facility at the Port of Vancouver. Read story
May 12, 2014, 5:00pm Latest News
MONTREAL -- Three railway employees arrested in the runaway oil train explosion that killed 47 people were arraigned and released on bail Tuesday. They face criminal negligence charges in the small Quebec town that was devastated by the horrific inferno, which led to calls for making oil trains safer across… Read story
May 11, 2014, 5:00pm Business
BILLINGS, Mont. -- A Republican congressman from Montana said Monday that his state's power generation and mining industries would suffer under a Washington state proposal to cut carbon pollution by eliminating imports of coal-fired power. Read story
May 10, 2014, 5:00pm Business
For the oil transport industry, disasters keep getting in the way of their reassuring messages about the safety of shipping crude by rail. Read story
May 10, 2014, 5:00pm Latest News
PORTLAND (AP) -- Trains moved almost 500 million gallons of crude oil along Oregon waterways last year, but no state law requires railroad companies to plan for oil spills or contribute to a regional database that tracks caches of emergency response equipment. Read story
May 5, 2014, 5:00pm Business
The Vancouver City Council will vote June 16 on two resolutions: One to oppose plans for what would be the Northwest's largest oil-handling facility at the Port of Vancouver, and one to formally intervene in the state Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council process. Read story
May 2, 2014, 5:00pm Business
LYNCHBURG, Va. -- As Pat Calvert steers a small motorboat over the James River, it's impossible not to notice the smell of motor oil, and it's not coming from the boat. Read story
May 2, 2014, 5:00pm Business
The former chairman of the state agency reviewing a proposal by Tesoro Corp. and Savage Companies to build the Northwest's largest oil-by-rail terminal in Vancouver says a statement by Tesoro's CEO to investors that his company expects to launch construction late this year or early in 2015 is unrealistic. Read story
May 1, 2014, 5:00pm Latest News
A CSX freight train carrying about 8,000 tons of coal partially derailed early Thursday morning in Bowie, Md., according to CSX officials and the Prince George's County Fire & EMS Department. Read story
