Posted on 06/21/2011 3:22:38 PM PDT by SmithL
An environmental group threatened to sue two of the nation's biggest rail owners Tuesday under a novel legal theory that would classify diesel exhaust as hazardous waste.
The Natural Resources Defense Council sent letters to Union Pacific Corp. and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, saying it will file a lawsuit within 90 days under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which regulates hazardous solid waste disposal.
The notice letter, which is required before proceeding with a lawsuit, cited problems at 16 rail yards across California, from Oakland to San Bernardino.
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I hope you enjoy paying the higher food and fuel costs that would result. California is the nations largest agricultural state and has many of the country's oil refineries too.
Sting, Bono, Sheryl Crow
That's all you need to know
.......... Frak'em...........
“An environmental group threatened to sue two of the nation’s biggest rail owners Tuesday under a novel legal theory”
The biggest source of waste in this country is our nation’s law schools.
It's already happened. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) mandates Diesel Particulate Filters (DPF's) on semi's operating in the state.
Sounds to me like we should pull a Alinsky against the environmental groups. Massive lawsuits and insults and accusations.
Fight fire with fire.
That could be. I’m on the southern shore of Lake Michigan, and tons of east/west traffic go by us.
I think it is probably black mail. If the RR agrees to make a “donation” to their cause the lawsuit will go away. The same way Jessie Jackson operates
Please give your wife my apologies, and explain to her that the horn usage is EXACTLY controlled and required by the Federal Government.
And I mean exactly, the number and length of the blast, the location, the decibels and pitch, the placement of the horns on the locomotive, all regulated with non compliance punished with reprimands fines and suspensions.
Engineers and the Railroad would treat your wife like their own sleeping child, if they had their way, and sound for safety only.
But government knows best.
“Next up - lawsuit against Midwestern farmers who are polluting with their farm machinery.”
It is in the works. EPA plans to start going after farmers who put dirt dust in the air as they plow.
These people are morons. All of them.....
I’m in Rochelle, 80 miles straight West of Chicago on I-88. Roosevelt Rd/Hwy 38 goes through town as well.
The little train that can’t.
Lets not forget classifying milk the same as oil in the event of spills.
Thank you for reminding me.....
Epa needs to halved. Or quartered.
it must be you, I come up wit alot more colorful than you did
Or the railroads could just stop serving Kalifornia.
Feels orchestrated. Unions are on full-tilt boogie to shut down the economy, and now the railroads are being attacked by the left?
Can you spell ‘runaway inflation’?
Santa Fe, Winfield, Kansas, September 18, 1911.
Now THAT would be improper disposal of hazardous waste!
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