The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has adopted the In-Use Locomotive Regulation a new rule aimed at reducing emissions from all switch, passenger, industrial and freight line haul locomotives when they operate within the state. Under the In-Use Locomotive Regulation, operators will now be required to pay into a spending account,.
California's government announced Thursday it would be the first state in the country to curb freight train emissions, banning non-electric train engines by 2030.