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2021 Spring Conference – Protecting Air & Water Through Pipeline Leak Detection – May 18th and 19th, 2021 from 9 to 11am PDT
Learn more and register here.


photo:Bill Caram

The Pipeline Safety Trust Announces New Executive Director. Click here to read the press release.


Great Blue Heron covered in oil from the Enbridge oil spill in Kalamazoo, Michigan

Both sessions of our webinar, The Enbridge Spill and Its Consequences, are now available for on-demand viewing


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The Pipeline Safety Trust’s new publication, A Decade In Review: 2010-2019, is now available for download.


photo:Bill Caram

The Pipeline Safety Trust announces we have hired Bill Caram as our new Deputy Director. Bill will be starting with the PST in late March and will transition into the Executive Director position at some point in the second half of 2020. click here for more information.


Links to video of each of the speakers at our annual conference, Nov. 7th & 8th, are now available at the Video on demand page.


Read a transcript of the PST Testimony to House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, Hearing on Pipeline Safety:Reviewing the Status of Mandates and Examining Additional Safety Needs, April 2, 2019.


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To help people visualize how often pipelines fail we have created maps that allow you to examine failure information state by state, and the pop-up windows will provide reported information on each failure as you select it.


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Funding Opportunity for local communities and non-profits: PHMSA has announced the opening of the application period for Community Technical Assistance grants. Applications are due May 3, 2019. Click here for more information.


NO2018 conference room

Videos and PowerPoint presentations from our conference are now available for on demand viewing. You can find them here.


Gas explosion fire in Boston area

If you are looking for information and data that relates to the Columbia Gas of Massachusetts tragedy on 9/13/18 we have posted quite a bit of information here.


Results of our 2017 state pipeline safety website review are now posted! Check out our take on this year’s review at the Smart Pig Blog.


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Our conference held on November 2-3 was a great success! Videos and speaker presentation documents are now available on our conference page.


new-rules

UPDATE: New hazardous liquid rule delayed due to Trump administration executive order. Here is our press release with our thoughts on these new rules. See the rule that was going to be published here.


Photo: Hotel Monteleon

We are now posting video and presentation slides from our recent Pipeline Safety Trust conference held in New Orleans. You can find these at this link. 


Carl Weimer

03/01/16-Trust Testifies at Hearing to Examine Pipeline Safety Reauthorization (pdf of testimony, 307k)


02/25/16-Trust Testifies on the Reauthorization of DOT’s Pipeline Safety Program (pdf of testimony, 300k)


Comment Now!

Winter 2016 newsletter available
Featuring articles on Dilbit and Keystone XL. Download your copy now.


Comment Now!


Many Comments Submitted on Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Rulemaking.
Comments were due January 8 to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. See links on our page about Opportunities for Comment and Participation.


CarlWeimer


Pipeline Safety Trust Executive Director honored at the White House as a Champion of Change!
Carl Weimer, the Trust Executive Director, was recognized on Tuesday, Oct 13 at the White House as one of 11 individuals from across the country as “White House Transportation Champions of Change.”


Pipeline website review

2015 Public Transparency Review of State Pipeline Safety Agencies & PHMSA
The annual Public Transparency Review of State Pipeline Safety Agencies & PHMSA is now live on our website. Check it out.


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On July 14th the Trust Testified to Congress
You can review all testimony here, or view a video of the entire hearing here


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Local Government Guide to Pipelines
The Pipeline Safety Trust has a Local Government Guide to Pipelines available on our Pipeline Information for Local Government page

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