A Houston-based company has withdrawn its application to ship as many as 385 million gallons of crude oil by rail through Baltimore and by barge in the Chesapeake Bay.

Targa Resources told the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) that it will no longer seek a state permit to handle Bakken Shale oil at its terminal in Fairfield.

Shipments of the highly volatile oil from North Dakota have been involved in several large explosions following train derailments, including an explosion in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, that killed 47 people in 2013. Activists have been campaigning for better public oversight and regulation of oil train shipments through Baltimore and across the state.

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