There was fuel leakage from the crashed locomotive, but a spokesperson for the Colorado Department of Public Health and ...

Trains carrying loads of coal bring with them higher rates of asthma, heart disease, hospitalization and death for residents living nearest the rail lines, according to a new study from the University ...

You’ve probably heard all the arguments against the proposed expansion of coal production. Dozens more traffic-stopping trains on the rails across Puget Sound. The potential environmental impact. On ...

CSX expects to take a $40 million hit in the fourth quarter due to lower than expected coal and automotive shipments. An Oct. 25 coal train derailment in Providence Forge, Va., and subsequent cleanup ...

Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series that will appear in coming weeks about whether trains serving the proposed Millennium Bulk Terminals coal terminal will increase cancer risks.

This article was originally published on Undark. In a sloping backyard in Vallejo, California, Nicholas Spada adjusted a piece of equipment that looked like a cross between a tripod, a briefcase, and ...

A coal train derailed near Ashdown near U.S. 71 on Tuesday evening, the Arkansas Department of Transportation said. Both north and southbound lanes were reduced to one lane “controlled by flaggers due ...

Transport company CSX says one of its empty coal trains has derailed Wednesday after striking a rock slide in West Virginia, causing a fire and spillage of an "unknown quantity of diesel fuel and oil" ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — A dispute that began last year between a Navajo Nation-owned coal company that operates the Spring Creek Mine in southeast Montana and BNSF Railway, one of the largest railroad ...

Developer Phil Tagami recently won a 10-year legal battle over his right to build a shipping terminal on Oakland's waterfront that could be used to export coal. But how soon and even whether coal cars ...

A man was rescued Tuesday in Bridgewater after he became buried up to his waist in coal, trapping him in the train car where he was working, officials say. At 9:05 a.m. Tuesday, Stiles & Hart Brick Co ...