Why exploding trains are the new Keystone XL With pipeline projects stalling, more crude is riding the rails. Also, spilling. And blowing up. That's making the Oil Express a target for protest.

The Transportation Department floated new rules Wednesday designed to prevent trains carrying crude oil from exploding. The effort is a response to a number of recent derailments and explosions ...

Oil-bearing trains keep exploding -- yet the regulatory structure that's supposed to keep the rails safe isn't able to do much.

On the eve of the first conference bringing together rail workers and environmentalists in Richmond, California, we’ve had one oil train after another go off the tracks and explode. The latest ...

WASHINGTON — The explosion of a runaway oil train in Canada highlights the risks that come from transporting oil, no matter the method.

Anyone plugged into environmental issues saw all kinds of stories about "bomb trains" last week, marking the first anniversary of a train accident in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada.

Articles and videos about "Bombs on the railway?" Trains moving large amounts of 'Bakken' crude oil are crashing, burning, exploding on FOX6 News Milwaukee.

A train explosion near Baltimore this week has renewed calls for safer chemicals.

(CNN) — The way Charlie Heebner remembers it, being aboard the passenger train that hurtled off an overpass in Washington state Monday morning was “like being inside an exploding bomb ...

Exploding oil trains—this was only the latest in a series—have emerged as a dangerous side effect of the U.S. energy boom. A lack of pipelines connecting new fields in North Dakota and Texas ...