NPREven Pickaxes Couldn't Stop The Nation's First Oil PipelineNPROne-hundred-fifty years ago, a man named Samuel Van Syckel built the nation's first commercial oil pipeline in the rugged terrain of northwestern Pennsylvania. His pipeline transf …

“A disaster waiting to happen:” America is awash in oil, but how do we move it ...fox6now.comNEW YORK (CNNMoney) — America is awash in oil, but it has limited capacity to move the stuff around in a safe way. Last week's train derailment and explosion i …

USA TODAYUS oil companies sobering upUSA TODAYWith the price of oil intoxicatingly high over the past few years, oil companies have been using it to fuel one of the greatest oil production booms in the country's history. In just a few short years, we&# …

ThinkProgress"For Spilling Crude Oil Into A River, Company Will Pay $361000"ThinkProgressSurvey crews in boats look over tanker cars as workers remove damaged tanker cars along the tracks where several CSX tanker cars carrying crude oil derailed …

Washington PostThe sky filled with fire after oil train derailed in W.Va.Washington PostAfter a train carrying more than 100 tankers filled with crude oil derailed in southern West Virginia on Monday, a fireball hundreds of feet high filled the sky. “It wa …