Surface Transportation Board Acts to Prevent a Patchwork Quilt of State Regulatory Requirements
By EsqSocial Corporation 26/01/21
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has issued a comprehensive decision that will likely forestall years of litigation over the scope of the Clean Water Act's (CWA) application to the interstate rail network. In December 2019, this blog reported on a Petition for Declaratory Order filed by the Association of American Railroads (AAR) with the STB seeking an order that the preemption provisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act (ICCTA) preclude the application of the Clean...
By: Holland & Knight LLP