EPA Signs Rule Easing Waiver Path For State Locomotive Air Regulations

EPA has finalized without change a long-expected measure that eases the regulatory path for California and other states to obtain a preemption waiver for their emissions standards for used locomotives, after officials severed the policy from still-pending federal emissions rules for heavy-duty trucks. “We received overwhelming support from commenters, as well as a few adverse comments,” the agency says in the text of its final rule that EPA Administrator Michael Regan signed Nov. 1 ahead of publication in the Federal...