Hazardous materials spill as train derails in rural North Dakota.

A Canadian Pacific freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed in North Dakota, spilling petroleum used to make asphalt. Emergency response personnel and hazmat experts are at the scene, but there was no fire and the spill occurred in a cold and snowy area, minimizing the threat to public safety. This incident comes less than two months after a train derailed near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, causing a raging fire and leaking cancerous chemicals near the small town of East Palestine, sparking an outcry over insufficient safety regulation of the transportation of hazardous materials.