re: #334 Fenway_Nation

Oh…and if cap and trade or the economy doesn’t kill the railway industry, more regulations cooked up by the Dems probably will.

Came across this…

What is EPA doing to control idle emissions from locomotives?

EPA is working hard to reduce emissions from locomotives, both while they are pulling freight and while they are idling. However, the Clean Air Act does not give EPA unlimited ability to regulate locomotives. Section 213(a)(5) and related provisions provide EPA the authority to establish emission standards for newly manufactured and remanufactured locomotives, as well as to prohibit railroads or anyone else from tampering with emission controls. For locomotives not yet required to use the idle reduction technologies, the Clean Air Act provisions do not appear to provide EPA with particular authority to prevent railroads from allowing them to idle. Thus, as described below, EPA’s regulatory efforts to reduce emissions from idling locomotives focus on requiring the application of automatic idle reduction technologies to the locomotives themselves rather than directly regulating when railroads may allow locomotives to idle…

More here:

epa.gov

Now, if they’re citing the Clean Air Act it could always be amended with new legislation or possibly through the coming CO2 regulations.