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The derailment in Washington state occurred on a berm along Padilla Bay, on the Swinomish tribal reservation near Anacortes. Most of 5,000 gallons of spilled diesel fuel leaked on the land.
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About eight train cars went off the tracks Wednesday evening in Mohave County, Ariz., near the California border. The incident follows a recent string of high-profile train derailments.
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The lawsuit seeks to force the company to pay for groundwater and soil monitoring in the years ahead and economic losses in the area.
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Lone Mountain operates a landfill for hazardous materials. Since 2017, the facility has disposed of 1733 tons of industrial waste each year on average. This shipment would have contracted the facility to dispose of more than twice that much.
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A tanker car ran off the rails in Verdigris, a small town just northeast of Tulsa. The minor derailment didn’t result in any injuries or harmful spills.
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The National Transportation Safety Board said two recent commuter rail accidents that killed one person and injured more than 200 others were caused by engineers falling asleep at the controls.
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Safety advocates and federal investigators have railed against a "lax safety culture" within Amtrak in recent years, but investigators warn against attributing four recent crashes to a systemic issue.
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Paul Schuda was the director of the NTSB's training center in Ashburn, Va. He and two other people died when the pilot's Cessna crashed into the woods in southeastern Indiana.
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The Amtrak Cascades train that derailed near Tacoma on Monday left three people dead and dozens injured.
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Against the backdrop of several fiery derailments, safety advocates are questioning whether new federal rules meant to prevent incidents go far enough. Opponents say the new rules are too costly.