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A fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment in Casselton, N.D., on Dec. 30, 2013. The National Transportation Safety Board is set to release the cause of the 2013 oil train derailment in eastern North Dakota. The accident happened when a train carrying soybeans derailed in front of an oil tanker train near the small town of Casselton. It caused a series of explosions and the evacuation of about 1,400 residents, but no one was hurt.

Defective axle blamed for 2013 fiery North Dakota derailment

A fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment in Casselton, N.D., on Dec. 30, 2013. The National Transportation Safety Board is set to release the cause of the 2013 oil train derailment in eastern North Dakota. The accident happened when a train carrying soybeans derailed in front of an oil tanker train near the small town of Casselton. It caused a series of explosions and the evacuation of about 1,400 residents, but no one was hurt.

February 7, 2017, 9:40am Nation & World

A defective axle broke and caused a 2013 train derailment that led to a series of explosions in North Dakota, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday. Read story

Tesoro pays $325,000 fine for federal violations

January 23, 2017, 9:20am Business

The Tesoro refinery in northwestern Washington has paid a $325,000 fine to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act. Read story

A train hauling oil passes through the Columbia River Gorge in March 2014 on its way to Vancouver.

First data on oil movement released following state law

A train hauling oil passes through the Columbia River Gorge in March 2014 on its way to Vancouver.

January 19, 2017, 4:50pm Business

About 21,600 rail cars carrying just under 618 million gallons of crude oil rolled into Washington state between October and December of last year, according to a new report released by the Department of Ecology. Read story

North Dakota landowners sue over Dakota Access easements

January 19, 2017, 11:33am Nation & World

A group of about two dozen North Dakota landowners is suing the developer of the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline for alleged deceit and fraud in acquiring land easements. Read story

Court hinders Grays Harbor oil terminal plan

January 12, 2017, 5:03pm Business

The Washington Supreme Court threw a major wrench Thursday in plans for a big oil terminal on the coast, saying the proposal must be reviewed under a 1989 state law designed to protect marine life following the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska. Read story

Wisconsin tribe wants pipeline moved from its reservation

January 6, 2017, 9:53am Nation & World

A Chippewa tribe in Wisconsin is calling for the removal of a pipeline from its reservation after 64 years of operation. Read story

Obama oil pipeline rules face uncertain future under Trump

December 21, 2016, 12:50pm Business

President Barack Obama’s administration is expected to push through long-delayed safety measures for the nation’s sprawling network of oil pipelines in its final days, despite resistance from industry and concern that incoming president Donald Trump may scuttle them. Read story

The oil drilling rig Polar Pioneer is towed toward a dock in Elliott Bay in Seattle. The rig was the first of two drilling rigs Royal Dutch Shell was outfitting for Arctic oil exploration. President Barack Obama is expected to order wide swaths of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans placed permanently off-limits for oil drilling, in an 11th-hour push for environmental protection before he leaves office.

Obama bans future oil leases in much of Arctic, Atlantic

The oil drilling rig Polar Pioneer is towed toward a dock in Elliott Bay in Seattle. The rig was the first of two drilling rigs Royal Dutch Shell was outfitting for Arctic oil exploration. President Barack Obama is expected to order wide swaths of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans placed permanently off-limits for oil drilling, in an 11th-hour push for environmental protection before he leaves office.

December 20, 2016, 1:45pm Nation & World

President Barack Obama on Tuesday designated the bulk of U.S.-owned waters in the Arctic Ocean and certain areas in the Atlantic Ocean as indefinitely off limits to future oil and gas leasing. Read story

Portland City Council bans new bulk fossil fuel terminals

December 15, 2016, 4:11pm Business

The Portland City Council on Wednesday unanimously passed a first-in the country ban on new bulk fossil fuel storage facilities that commissioners hope will be replicated in other cities even as the incoming Trump administration signals its intent to dismantle federal climate change policies. Read story

Demonstrators gather on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday to protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline.

North Dakota oil spill raises questions about safety

Demonstrators gather on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday to protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline.

December 14, 2016, 12:26pm Nation & World

The discovery of an oil pipeline spill earlier this month in western North Dakota has drawn heightened attention because of the battle over the Dakota Access oil pipeline being built about 150 miles to the southeast. While the spill was on a different pipeline, the Standing Rock Sioux and its… Read story