CARB Seeks Stay Or Dismissal Of Railroads’ Claims Over Locomotive Rule

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is urging a federal judge to either dismiss the railroad industry’s remaining claims challenging the board’s rule requiring emissions cuts from existing locomotives or stay the case until EPA acts on the board’s pending Clean Air Act (CAA) request for authorization to enforce the rule. Until “EPA acts on CARB’s pending authorization request, there is some uncertainty about which congressionally authorized path is at issue for which of the Regulation’s provisions,” CARB attorneys...