The first-in-the-nation regulations represent major progress in the effort to clean up California's worst-in-the-nation air.
For Yasmine Agelidis, senior associate attorney at the environmental nonprofit Earthjustice, the new framework to curb rail pollution is “absolutely monumental” and a long time coming.
“We’re all very appreciative of California’s leadership,” she said, “and hope that it does serve as a motivator and a guide for EPA to follow suit, and to make sure that every community in the country is not saddled by diesel pollution coming from rail yards down the street [or] up the block.”California’s long, smog-filled history of awful air is precisely why it’s able to set its own emission standards for motor vehicles .
“I hope that neither do get challenged at court, because these are life-saving regulations with technology that’s already available today and just continuing to be developed,” she said. “I really hope that the railroads and other industry doesn’t choose to take that path, but they have sort of suggested that that might be the route.
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