California to Require ‘Zero Emissions’ Passenger Trains After 2030, Freight After 2035

Breitbart ^ | 04/28/2023 | JOEL B. POLLAK

[ChicagoConservative27]

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has enacted new regulations that will require “zero emissions” trains to be introduced after 2030, focusing on a sector often seen as a “green” alternative to cars and trucks.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Under the new regulations, zero-emissions models will be required for all switch, industrial and passenger locomotives built after 2030 and for all freight line locomotives built after 2035. Any non-zero emissions locomotive that is 23 years old or more will not be allowed to operate in the state past 2030.

The regulations also require train operators to open a spending account by July 2024 that they must deposit into every year to purchase or lease cleaner diesel trains and buy zero-emissions infrastructure. Operators that generate more pollutants are required to deposit more into the spending account, and the amount required to be deposited would also increase every year.

It is unclear how the new regulations on trains would affect interstate commerce, which is regulated by Congress under the U.S. Constitution, since many trains in California also travel through other states.

[Scrambler Bob]

You will need a horse and buggy to travel there.
= = =

Make that a ‘zero emissions’ horse.

[Safrguns]

>>> Otisburg wasn’t his idea.

Yeah... ALWAYS the woman’s fault! “Miss Tessmauker!!!”

[Safrguns]

Oh... and thanks for getting that!... makes me feel not quite as old.

[ronnie raygun]

Let us remember and if there is ever a time in the future they need to all be put on trial convicted and jailed

[Organic Panic]

I would say let them die. But the problem is the deep water ports on the west coast. If I were Mexico’s president I would be upgrading Ensenada and building rail roads that bypass California completely.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Its going to take some big batteries to pull a trainload over a mountain pass.

Although, they are starting small, with switchyards.

[roadcat]

Lots of them I think. Besides Amtrak there are lots of commuter trains. Nearly all are pulled by diesel engines.

Here in the SF Bay Area we have CalTrain commuter trains on the Peninsula, SF to San Jose. A $2.4 billion project was forced on CalTrain as part of the stupid "high-speed" rail project, to electrify all the CalTrain locomotives. The stupid part, is that the locomotives use diesel to generate electricity to power the electric motors on the trains, so they are already electric! Created a big traffic nightmare here as tracks, stations and intersections (with automotive crossings) were rebuilt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrain_Modernization_Program

[markman46]

we have 7 yrs to comply with the commie CARB
hey CARB FU