An oil-train derailment near Casselton, N.D., last December helped spur proposed new safety regulations. Zuma Press Oil companies and railroads have united to fight some proposed federal rules on oil-train safety after a year of pointing fingers at each other over explosive accidents. Industry groups representing railroads and energy companies on Tuesday told the U.S. Transportation Department that they need more than two years to build safer railcars to haul crude. The department’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration in July proposed safety rules for oil trains that would create new standards for tank-car brakes, other components, speed limits and special routes around populated areas. The department’s proposals also seek to scrap some of the oldest railcars while upgrading others. The proposals were in response to a series of oil-train accidents that began in July of last year with a derailment and fireball in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec , which killed […]