Accidents like this have made people in Oregon increasingly nervous about the increasing number of oil trains traveling through the state.

In reponse, the federal government has issued an emergency order that requires railroads to notify affected counties when they are transporting more than one million gallons of crude oil. 

These reports are now posted on the Oregon State Fire Marshal's website for people to see.

Rich Hoover with the State Fire Marshal's Office wants the requirement through is very specific.

"There's two criteria the report requires.  It has to be Bakken crude oil and it has to be one million gallons or more.  So if you're transported one and a half million gallons, but it's not Bakken oil, that it's not required to report, or of its 900-thosaund gallons of Bakken crude, you're not required to report. These two elements have to exist before they are required to report."

It's estimated that more than 15 trains of Bakken oil move through the Pacific Northwest each week, headed to refineries in Washington and Oregon.