The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) is awarding $14.8 million in grants to fund projects and activities to improve pipeline safety.

BELLINGHAM – A former head of the National Transportation Safety Board says pipeline safety in the United States remains inadequate, despite improvements since the 1999 Olympic Pipe Line explosion ...

AMORY – In the United States, there are roughly three million miles of regulated pipelines, which doesn’t include utility lines. Essential services buried underground reinforce the need for safety, ...

A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee will hold a hearing this week on pipeline safety as lawmakers look to develop a new authorization bill for the nation’s lead regulator. The Energy Subcommittee ...

WASHINGTON — More than a decade after Congress passed landmark legislation designed to make safer the nation’s pipeline system following the death of eight people in a gas pipeline explosion in ...

In March 2025, the U.S. Department of Transportation issued a strong signal to the pipeline industry: it's time to embrace Pipeline Safety Management Systems (PSMS). As part of this initiative, ...

Senate Commerce Committee will mark up the PIPES Act Wednesday Washington, D.C. — Today, more than 120 organizations representing public‐interest, landowner, Indigenous, and environmental justice ...

The 2020 rupture of a carbon dioxide pipeline in a Mississippi village that poisoned dozens of people inspired a slate of new safety regulations, proposed in the last week of Joe Biden’s presidency.

A year ago, a different kind of pipeline project was announced in the Midwest. Most pipelines pick up oil or gas from a well and deliver it to customers who burn it, emitting carbon dioxide into the ...

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (“PHMSA”) addressed in a November 22, 2022, Interpretive Letter the application of the Hazardous Materials Regulations to hazardous materials ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. A year ago, a different kind of pipeline project was announced in the Midwest.