{"id":68963,"date":"2015-04-01T11:37:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T16:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=68963"},"modified":"2015-04-01T11:37:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T16:37:39","slug":"new-safer-oil-rail-shipping-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=68963","title":{"rendered":"New, safer oil rail shipping rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/oiltankerderail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22542\" alt=\"oiltankerderail\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/oiltankerderail.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/oiltankerderail.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/oiltankerderail-248x175.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota is requiring oil companies to reduce the volatility of crude before it&#8217;s loaded onto rail cars.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The new rules went into effect on Wednesday and will require companies to remove certain liquids and gasses from oil train shipments. It&#8217;s a process some say will make such transport safer.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Crude from North Dakota&#8217;s oil patch has been linked to several fiery oil train crashes in the past two years.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Industry officials initially balked at the new regulations. But North Dakota Petroleum Council Vice President Kari Cutting says the new rules likely will make crude oil &#8220;more stable and safer&#8221; for rail transport.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cutting says companies have spent several million dollars installing equipment to comply with the new rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota is requiring oil companies to reduce the volatility of crude before it&#8217;s loaded onto rail cars.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The new rules went into effect on Wednesday and will require companies to remove certain liquids and gasses from oil train shipments. It&#8217;s a process some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68966,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68963\/revisions\/68966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}