(Source: DeSmog Blog, September 28, 2016)
NEW YORK — Created in 1996, the Surface Transportation Board (STB) is a federal agency that serves as “an independent adjudicatory and economic-regulatory agency charged by Congress with resolving railroad rate and service disputes and reviewing proposed railroad mergers.” A recent STB decision helped clear up some of the gray areas around the issue of “pre-emption,” in which railroads are not subject to any local or state authorities or laws because local and state laws are “pre-empted” by federal law.
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