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Buttigieg Vows Help as US Car Fatalities Keep Spiking Higher

WASHINGTON (AP)–Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is vowing to help stem rising traffic fatalities, releasing a broad-based strategy aimed at reducing speed, redesigning roads and boosting car safety features such as automatic emergency braking. Buttigieg told The Associated Press that new …

First Cars Often Lack Safety Features for Newly Licensed Teens

Getting behind the wheel of your first car is a memorable event, especially for younger people. Yet inexperience brings higher risk, so new teen drivers need all the safety advantages they can get, and the latest poll from Seattle-based PEMCO …

Montana Still Cataloging Pipeline Stream Crossings

The state says it is still cataloging information on the 9,000 or so places where pipelines cross some type of waterway in Montana. The issue was thrust into the forefront after an Exxon Mobil oil pipeline broke during spring flooding …

TransCanada Touts Proposed Oil Pipeline’s Safety

Executives from a Canadian company seeking to build a massive pipeline linking Alberta’s oil sands to U.S. refineries said Tuesday the line will include safety features to prevent a spill like the one that fouled the Yellowstone River in July. …