(Source: Legal Newsline, December 11, 2019)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Consol Energy has filed a lawsuit against some of the largest U.S. class I railroads alleging an illegal fuel charge scheme. Consol alleges that the defendant railroads violated antitrust laws by assessing a rate-based fuel charge for its freight transportation services between July 1, 2003, until at least Dec. 31, 2008. Consol alleges the railways, which together control about 90 percent of the U.S. freight traffic, “conspired” to use the high fuel charges to “fix, raise, maintain, and/or stabilize” rail prices in the U.S.
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