The final coal train left the Indian River Power Plant this week, marking the end of decades of coal transportation on the ...

A collision Saturday night between a freight train and a barge sticking out onto the railroad tracks sent coal cars and diesel fuel into the Mississippi River along Southeast Iowa’s Lee County, ...

A train derailment in West Virginia on Wednesday resulted in an "unknown" amount of diesel fuel and oil being released into a portion of one of North America's oldest rivers that's also part of the ...

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.

Freight trains carrying coal pose a health risk to communities living near rail lines. (Getty) Trains carrying loads of coal bring with them higher rates of asthma, heart disease, hospitalization and ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) -A coal train in major exporter Australia's Queensland state derailed after it hit a freight train late on Sunday night, haulage operator Aurizon Holdings Ltd said on Monday. The ...

There are just a couple days left to ride the last coal-fired steam locomotive at the Milwaukee County Zoo—one of the days being this coming Saturday, Sept. 14. Partly for environmental reasons, the ...

WASHINGTON, March 8 (Reuters) - A CSX Corp (CSX.O), opens new tab freight train derailed early on Wednesday after it struck a rockslide in Sandston, West Virginia, causing injuries to three crew ...

BNSF Railway, one of the crown jewels of Warren Buffett’s sprawling Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate, calls itself an environmental leader in the U.S. rail industry with the cleanest locomotive fleet ...

Iowa Department of Natural Resources officials say the environmental cleanup from a train derailment along the Mississippi River near Montrose is well underway. The collision happened when a BNSF ...