The Honorable Nita Lowey serves in the United States House of Representatives, where she represents a district in New York.
Could this survive legal challenge? It would seem to me that the interstate transportation of commercial goods is almost exclusively a federal matter. Suppose NY's regs turn out to be more restrictive than those of the feds (assuming the feds adopt some, or perhaps deliberately do not do so).
WASHINGTON — A New York State member of the House of Representatives says that rail-moved crude oil needs stricter safety constraints until federal regulators make safety rules more specific. U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., writes in her bill th...
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/07/31-crude-oil-rules
Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
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