Energy & Fuel

"Feds Issue Emergency Order on Crude Oil Trains"

"WASHINGTON -- The Transportation Department issued an emergency order Wednesday requiring that railroads inform state emergency management officials about the movement of large shipments of crude oil through their states and urged shippers not to use older model tanks cars that are easily ruptured in accidents, even at slow speeds."

Source: AP, 05/08/2014

"Stanford to Purge $18 Billion Endowment of Coal Stock"

"Stanford University announced Tuesday that it would divest its $18.7 billion endowment of stock in coal-mining companies, becoming the first major university to lend support to a nationwide campaign to purge endowments and pension funds of fossil fuel investments."

Source: NY Times, 05/07/2014

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