{"id":3628,"date":"2014-03-06T19:28:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T03:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2014-03-08T08:06:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T16:06:15","slug":"feds-add-to-oil-train-testing-requirements-after-spate-of-accidents-in-us-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/06\/feds-add-to-oil-train-testing-requirements-after-spate-of-accidents-in-us-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds add to oil train testing requirements after spate of accidents in US, Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_136918943.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2859\" alt=\"shutterstock_136918943\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_136918943-234x300.jpg\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_136918943-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_136918943.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p>BILLINGS, Mon. &#8211; Federal regulators are further tightening testing requirements for companies that transport oil by rail after a spate of explosions caused by crude train derailments in the U.S. and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s action from the U.S. Department of Transportation builds on a Feb. 25 order that targeted oil shipments for more stringent testing.<\/p>\n<p>Testing has long been required to gauge the volatility of oil and other hazardous liquids. But there were no standards on how frequently that had to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation officials are now specifying that within the &#8220;reasonable, recent past&#8221; companies must have tested the flash point and boiling point of crude to determine how likely it is to ignite.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are telling companies not to re-label crude as some other volatile product in an attempt to get around testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BILLINGS, Mon. &#8211; Federal regulators are further tightening testing requirements for companies that transport oil by rail after a spate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[549,349,548,352],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-emergency","tag-oil","tag-trains","tag-us","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}