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According to the minutes of the January 22, 2015 Hazardous Materials Commission meeting, Commissioner Smith said the Martinez Shell refinery announced it will “delay their Greenhouse Gas Reduction project because of the downturn in the price of crude oil.“  

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/27/us-usa-climate-poll-idUSKBN0LV0CV20150227?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews BY BRUCE WALLACE   Reuters   Fri Feb 27, 2015 (Reuters) – A significant majority of Americans say combating climate change is a moral issue that obligates them – and world leaders – to reduce carbon emissions, a Reuters/IPSOS … Continue reading →

http://fuelfix.com/blog/2015/02/23/texas-reconsiders-and-will-disclose-oil-train-records/ By AP    February 23, 2015 AUSTIN, Texas — Texas officials have reconsidered their decision to withhold details of how many trains carry at least 1 million gallons of crude oil across the state each week. The Texas Attorney … Continue reading →

http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/safety/why-bitumen-isnt-necessarily-safer-than-bakken.html Written by David Thomas, Contributing Editor for Railway Age The chain reaction fireballs that attended the Feb. 16, 2015 derailment of a CSX unit oil train in populated West Virginia probably blinded observers to the significance of the concurrent … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/21/opinion/no-more-exploding-tank-cars.html?smid=nytcore-iphone-share&smprod=nytcore-iphone&_r=1 By The New York Times EDITORIAL BOARD    FEB. 20, 2015 By some miracle, considering how close it was to the city of Charleston, the huge fireball from an enormous explosion of oil tank cars in West Virginia this … Continue reading →

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ap-exclusive-fuel-hauling-trains-derail-10-year-29139529 By MATTHEW BROWN and JOSH FUNK   2/22/15   AP BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – The federal government predicts that trains hauling crude oil or ethanol will derail an average of 10 times a year over the next two decades, … Continue reading →

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/02/17/bay-area-crude-oil-by-rail-shipments-halted-after-price-per-barrel-drops-sharply/ By Christin Ayers    February 17, 2015 11:03 PM    KPIX5 http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=11148790 RICHMOND (CBS SF) — The low price of oil has has prompted an energy company to halt the transportation by rail of Bakken crude through the Bay Area. … Continue reading →

http://www.pe.com/articles/california-760520-crude-oil.html Derailment that caused crude-oil inferno in West Virginia called wake-up call for California. BY DAVID DANELSKI    Feb. 17, 2015    Press Enterprise The fiery derailment this week of a train pulling more than a hundred tank cars of … Continue reading →

http://ktla.com/2015/02/18/residents-report-hearing-explosion-feeling-ground-shake-near-torrance-exxon-mobil-refinery/ BY TRACY BLOOM   FEBRUARY 18, 2015    KTLA5 The Torrance Fire Department was responding  Wednesday morning after a “large explosion” was reported at the ExxonMobil Refinery. The Torrance Fire Department responded to an explosion at the ExxonMobil Torrance … Continue reading →

Cleanup continues at the site of a CN train derailment about 30 km northwest of Gogama, Ont. CBC News    Feb 18, 2015 While investigators continue to search for the cause of a CN train Saturday near Gogama, Ont., the … Continue reading →