Judge Gives BNSF Railway 6 Months To Find Prototype For Car Cover

Mealey's (October 15, 2018, 1:49 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — A federal judge in Washington on Oct. 11 gave BNSF Railway Co. six months to secure a functioning prototype for a cover for open-top coal cars that would prevent the discharge of coal and petcoke dust after finding that the company’s inability to meet deadlines contained in a May 2017 consent decree was not justified (Sierra Club, et al. v. BNSF Railway Co., No. C13-0967-JCC, W.D. Wash., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 175455)....

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