SENATOR LAUTENBERG REFUSES TO GO GREEN AND SUPPORTS MORE TRUCK POLLUTION !
TIMES SQUARE GOSSIP EDITORIAL Senator Lautenberg wants more pollution New York’s senators are co-sponsors of the Clean Railroads Act, introduced by Senator Lautenberg, of New Jersey. Lautenberg, however, has quietly amended the bill. It will now allow local officials to close rail facilities which ship waste. Governor Spitzer recently vetoed a similar NY law as it would have placed 78,000 heavy long distance waste trucks a year on the chronically jammed Cross Bronx Expressway. Moving waste by rail is a relatively new phenomena related to disposal facilities in the Northeastern United States reaching capacity. Major population centers east of the Mississippi now generate 6,827,213,260-ton miles on our highways to move household waste to distant disposal sites and that traffic is growing quickly. Most of that traffic could be handled by rail and doing so would save 999 million gallons of diesel fuel and avoid 341 accidents causing death or serious injury each year. However, railroads do...