“India has been such an amazing example of a rapid transition of a diesel rail system to an electric rail system,” says Yasmine Agelidis, senior attorney at Earthjustice, an environmental nonprofit ...

From coal to diesel to green? To jump start its sustainability goals, Union Pacific (UP) has committed to reducing absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 50.4% by 2030 from a 2018 base year from ...

Railroad operators like to say that trains are greener than trucks when it comes to moving goods, pointing out that one railcar can haul three to four times as much as a truck, and one freight train ...

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William Wolfgang, the T's director of vehicle engineering, says that new battery-powered engine technology isn't sufficiently developed to be able to replace the T's aging fleet of diesel locomotives.