1.   In addition to civil aviation crashes, the independent board looks into some highway, railroad, Marine and pipeline accidents.

2.   An official with the NTSB, the agency charged with investigating pipeline accidents, said nothing indicated that the line was deliberately punctured.

3.   Asmundson is planning to try to form a coalition with other local officials from states that have had pipeline accidents.

4.   But he also noted that pipeline accidents have occurred at other companies with equally clean records.

5.   Hall and Coyner were in Bellingham on Thursday to tour the site of the pipeline accident and meet with city officials.

6.   In recent years, environmentalists, local officials, survivors of people who died in pipeline accidents and others has been pressing for more vigorous regulation.

7.   Industry officials and regulators say accidents by excavators are the leading cause of pipeline accidents.

8.   Over the years, Congress often imposed new regulations in response to pipeline accidents.

9.   The order from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities follows recommendations by the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates pipeline accidents.