BNSF Railway

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LONGVIEW (AP) — BNSF Railway has appealed an environmental review of a coal-export terminal in Washington state, arguing it miscalculated or overstated the risk of cancer for some residents. Millennium Bulk Terminal-Longview has long wanted to build a facility along the Columbia River near the city of Longview to handle up to 44 million tons of coal a year...

SEATTLE (AP) — Officials say Amtrak service has been temporarily disrupted between Seattle and Portland because of a landslide. Amtrak said in a news release Tuesday that BNSF Railway, which owns the tracks, has placed a 48-hour moratorium on all rail traffic in the area until Thursday...

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — BNSF Railway has gone to court to prevent the Pierce County Medical Examiner from obtaining video showing the moments before a man was killed by a train. Medical Examiner Thomas Clark says his investigators need a copy of the video to determine the manner of death of 50-year-old Ronnie Stirgus...

VANCOUVER  (AP) — Officials say Amtrak services have been temporarily disrupted between Vancouver and Kelso because of a landslide. Amtrak said in a news release Monday that BNSF Railway, which owns the tracks, has placed a 48-hour moratorium on all rail traffic in the area until Wednesday...

SEATTLE (AP) — A tentative agreement has been reached between BNSF Railway and seven environmental groups that sued alleging coal spilled from trains pollutes waterways in Washington state. Under the agreement announced Tuesday by both sides, BNSF agreed to conduct a two-year study on physical covers for coal and petroleum coke railcars...

BELLINGHAM (AP) — BNSF Railway says five people who blocked the main rail line in Bellingham during a protest against oil and coal trains have been arrested. KOMO-TV reports that the group of demonstrators was arrested early Sunday after holding up two Amtrak trains and four freight trains...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — State officials say BNSF Railway will pay $75,000 to settle a 2015 penalty for water quality violations. The Department of Ecology said Monday the railway agreed to the fine for placing creosote-treated railroad ties in water during maintenance projects in Whatcom and Skagit counties...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee wants federal regulators to issue an emergency order requiring safety inspectors to physically walk the rail lines in the hours before Bakken crude oil is transported. In a letter to the railroad administration's chief, Inslee called current federal inspection standards "insufficient to protect our communities from the imminent threat of fires, spills, an