Republican members of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee are urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deny the California Air Resource Board’s (CARB’s) authorization request to establish new standards on railroad operations.
Committee Chairman U.S. Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO) and Chairman of the Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) led other T&I Committee Republicans in a letter to EPA Administrator Michael Regan. The lawmakers said the EPA should deny CARBs request to establish new emissions standards, procedures, financial assessments and reporting requirements for railroad operations as part of its In-Use Locomotive Regulation. The lawmakers said the rule could damage interstate commerce and supply chains, and was a departure from long-established historical norms and precedents.
