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Goo goo g’joob! By John MacNeill The Walrus heavy-transport blimp (“heavy” as in “1-2 million pounds”) was among a range of projects on the drawing board in the mid ’00s. It offered the potential for a faster and...

Albany, New York Sheriff Craig Apple assured a room of concerned citizens that county emergency crews were prepared to handle an oil-train accident involving three or four tank cars. Firefighters have been training to combat railcar fires with foam...

Every fatal accident is a terrible tragedy, prompting searching questions about how it could have happened and whether more could have been done to prevent the loss of life. The fireball that engulfed the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic after a runaway...

AH Oil train protesters momentarily block a railroad in South Seattle in January. Last July, the town center of Lac-Megantic in Quebec was practically vaporized, killing 47 people, when a train carrying crude oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken...

Today’s tales from the place when humans meet the world that gave us life begins with the latest from a drought-stricken Golden State, via the Guardian: State of emergency in California as wildfires spread from Oregon Governor Jerry Brown declare state...