California’s transportation and infrastructure regulator, Heather Arias, defended the state’s new pollution rules for trains during a hearing with Republicans seeking to kill them. The rules, pending before the EPA, would require older trains to be phased out and make companies pay for emissions. Arias argued that reducing pollution caused by locomotives is crucial for California to meet its Clean Air Act obligations.

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