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Diesel

First Russian diesel tanker is on the water: 40,000 tons bound for New York

The Malta-flagged Agioi Fanendes loaded 40,000 metric tons of ultra-low-sulfur diesel at Primorsk, Russia, on Oct. 22 and is due in New York on Nov. 7 — the first identified U.S.-bound shipment under the Trump-Putin diesel deal, and at roughly 300,000 barrels, about 7% of one day's U.S. diesel consumption.

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One killed in fiery seven-vehicle I-81 chain-reaction crash near Carlisle; Texas man charged

A seven-vehicle chain-reaction crash on Interstate 81 northbound in South Middleton Township killed one person, sent an unknown number of people to a hospital and closed the interstate between Exits 47 and 49 for nearly nine hours on Friday; Pennsylvania State Police have charged a Round Rock, Texas, man with homicide by vehicle. It was the second closure of I-81 in Cumberland County before 8 a.m. — a flammable-load tractor-trailer overturned near Exit 57 at 4:51 a.m.

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The Morning Mile — Friday, Oct. 23

Ryder beats the quarter and talks fleet growth over EPA '27 panic, Triumph Financial names the five costs squeezing carriers, a Munich court orders Daimler and MAN cartel repayments, a coffee truck is torn apart on I-81, and rejected loads cost a median 22% more.

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Chemical release at MC Tank terminal in Toledo forces a 1-mile evacuation; zone cut to half a mile as 35 people seek hospital care

A transfer error at the MC Tank Transport terminal in north Toledo released glycidyl methacrylate from a 5,500-gallon tank on Tuesday night, forcing about 983 people to evacuate and a 3-mile area to shelter in place; by Wednesday afternoon the tank was cooling, the evacuation zone was halved, the shelter-in-place order was lifted, and at least 35 people had reported to hospitals with symptoms potentially related to the leak.

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NC-12 damage put at 800 feet of pavement and 1,800 feet of dunes; emergency ferry in planning and no reopening timeline

The North Carolina Department of Transportation now reports about 800 feet of pavement damage near the Pea Island Visitor Center — waves undermined the roadway — and about 1,800 feet of protective dunes lost, with the department in the planning stages of activating the Stumpy Point–Rodanthe emergency ferry and no timeline for reopening until overwash subsides and a full assessment is possible.

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