"Stung By Derailments, U.S. and Canada Rewrite Crude-By-Rail Regs"

"U.S. and Canadian officials unveiled regulations [Friday] that would effectively overhaul the entire fleet of U.S. crude oil tank cars in five years.

The crude-by-rail safety rule -- jointly developed by the U.S. Department of Transportation and Transport Canada -- marks the most significant regulatory action since a runaway train hauling oil derailed and exploded killing 47 people two years ago in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec.

'We can never undo the damage that took place in Lac-Mégantic or in any other railway accident, but we can and must learn from those events and improve our system,' Canada's Minister of Transport Lisa Raitt said during a press conference yesterday in Washington, D.C."

Blake Sobczak reports for Greenwire May 1, 2015.

SEE ALSO:

"New Oil Train Rules Are Hit From All Sides" (New York Times)

"How New Oil Transport Regulations Could Increase Rail Safety" (Christian Science Monitor)

"Dems Criticize Obama’s Oil Train Safety Rules" (The Hill)

"Veil of Secrecy Returns To Oil Trains in Pacific Northwest Under New Plan" (Oregonian)

"New Oil-Train Rules Leave a Lot of Questions Unanswered" (McClatchy)

"Did You Like Knowing Where Oil Trains Moved In the Northwest? Too Bad." (EarthFix/OPB)