Nobody likes exploding trains, but Americans can’t yet seem to quit their unhealthy relationship with fossil fuels, and so we get exploding trains. Five this year, as a matter of fact. You know who ...

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. That train was ...

The effort is a response to a number of recent derailments and explosions that have increased partly because of booming oil production in the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota and Montana. The ...