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US, Canada jointly release crude-by-rail transportation rules. The US and Canada simultaneously issued new regulations governing transportation of crude oil and other hazardous materials by rail.
More crude oil was spilled in U.S. rail incidents last year than was spilled in the nearly four decades since the federal government began collecting data on such spills, an analysis of the data shows. A fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment Monday, Dec 30, 2013, in Casselton, N.D.ncluding major derailments in Alabama and North Dakota, more than 1.15 million gallons of crude oil was spilled from rail cars in 2013, according to data from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. By comparison, from 1975 to 2012, U.S. railroads spilled a combined 800,000 gallons of crude oil.