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Energy and Environment

Can the science in your $5 latte help prevent oil spills?

Zack Colman · February 25, 2015 4:43 pm

In this Monday, Feb. 16, 2015 photo provided by WCHS-TV, fire burns at the scene of a train derailment, near Mount Carbon, W.Va. Fires burned for nearly nine hours after the train carrying more than 100 tankers of crude oil derailed in a snowstorm, plunging at least one tanker into a river while sending a fireball into the sky, authorities and residents say. (AP Photo/WCHS-TV, Bob Aaron)

Energy and Environment

Feds begin full probe of West Virginia oil train explosion

Zack Colman · February 23, 2015 3:13 pm

President Obama and the state of California are enchanted with high-speed rails but buses the better option. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Transportation mode of the future: The bus

Michael Barone · January 31, 2015 12:41 am

A subway train arrives at the L'Enfant Metro Station in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, which is part of the public mass transit network for Washington. The transit network in the nation's capital, remains hobbled after an electrical malfunction that filled a L'Enfant Metro subway station with smoke, killing one woman and sending dozens of people to hospitals. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Hey, how’s America’s rail security doing?

Michelle Malkin · January 14, 2015 4:43 pm

An aircraft flying overhead photographed on November 29, 2010 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty images)

Beltway Confidential

Yes, flying in the U.S. still safe

Jason Russell · December 30, 2014 11:31 pm

A maglev train approaches a station on July 24, 2006 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by China Photos/Getty images)

Beltway Confidential

Why we’re not going to get Northeast Corridor high-speed rail

Michael Barone · October 23, 2014 9:03 pm

Joe Biden reveals his ‘biggest regret’

Beltway Confidential

Joe Biden reveals his ‘biggest regret’

Becket Adams · October 21, 2014 10:59 pm

Railroad crews work on one of five derailed tank cars on a bridge in Philadelphia. The accident Monday follows a series of derailments involving Bakken Shale crude from North Dakota including one that exploded in Canada, killing 47 people. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Energy and Environment

Oil tanker proposal draws fire from industry

Zack Colman · October 1, 2014 1:16 pm

Companies that make tanker cars for shipping oil across the country fear they are being railroaded by the Department of Transportation. (Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA)

Energy and Environment

Fears grow about oil tanker shortage

Zack Colman · September 15, 2014 9:00 am

FILE - In this May 5, 2009 file photo, Burlington Northern Santa Fe locomotives are parked in a rail yard in Lincoln, Neb. A unit of the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers union has rejected a deal with BNSF that would have allowed one-person crews under certain circumstances. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Rail union rejects deal that allowed one-man crews

Josh Funk · September 11, 2014 3:44 pm

In this Aug. 8, 2012 photo, a DOT-111 rail tanker passes through Council Bluffs, Iowa. Federal regulators proposed new rules Tuesday designed to prevent unattended railcars carrying crude oil from running off the tracks. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Energy and Environment

Feds float new rules to prevent runaway oil tankers

Zack Colman · September 9, 2014 5:05 pm

North Dakota Gov. Gov. Jack Dalrymple, center, U.S. Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., left, and U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer. R-N.D., listen to opening statements by the National Surface Transportation Board during a hearing on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014, in Fargo, N.D. The hearing discussed delays in railroad grain shipments. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack)

Officials ask federal board to help on rail delays

Dave Kolpack · September 4, 2014 10:57 pm