ALICEVILLE, Ala. -- Environmental regulators promised an aggressive cleanup after a tanker train hauling 2.9 million gallons of crude oil derailed and burned in a west Alabama swamp in early November ...

The state of North Dakota produces a lot of oil - everyday roughly a million barrels. But there isn't the pipeline capacity to ship all that oil to major markets right now, so the industry has been ...

But mounting concerns about microscopic rail defects in three earlier train derailments had led to the formation of a working group whose recommendations had been accepted by a federal Rail Safety ...

State and federal inspectors found four critical defects and 42 non-critical ones in the latest round of oil train and track inspections across New York. Governor Andrew Cuomo says the inspections of ...

Donald Trump says the ship is the "largest" tanker "ever seized", in a move that marks an escalation of tensions between the ...

SIOUX CITY | The black tanker rail cars carrying crude oil continue to rumble through Sioux City and Northwest Iowa regularly, though statistics suggest there are fewer than in recent years. The ...

MOUNT CARBON, W.Va. -- Oil cars were burning more than a day after a train carrying 3 million gallons of North Dakota crude derailed in a West Virginia snowstorm, shooting fireballs into the sky.

Three Canadian railway workers were acquitted Friday on charges stemming from the fiery crash of a oil tanker train that killed 47 people in 2013, according to reporting by the Canadian Broadcasting ...

The Bakken crude oil loaded onto 107 tanker train cars of the BNSF Railway at a transload station in the oil patch and crashed in Wells County should have met the state’s new safety standards that ...