APNewsBreak: Railroads threatened with lawsuit
22nd June 2011
An environmental group threatened to sue two of the nation’s biggest rail owners Tuesday under a novel legal theory that would classify diesel exhaust as hazardous waste.
The Natural Resources Defense Council sent letters to Union Pacific Corp. and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, saying it will file a lawsuit within 90 days under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which regulates hazardous solid waste disposal.
Environmentalists! Of course! If horses were good enough for Queen Victoria, they ought to be good enough for you, dammit.