Kent Pehler News Today

  I’m responding to Kent Pehler’s letter “Expanding insolvent passenger rail?” I first want to point out some factual errors. He states that railroads have not been forced to improve emissions like other modes have. Actually, they have been subject to four tiers of increasingly stringent limits. Here are a couple links about this: www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engines/final-rule-emission-standards-locomotives-and-locomotive, www.bts.gov/content/federal-exhaust-emission...