Those EIR requirements supposedly emminating from the state are unprecedented and overblown. Since when does a railroad need an EIR to cover what is mostly routine maintenance. Had NWP remained in operation, these same things would have been done everyday without anyone noticing or caring - and with no impact on the environment other than the after-lunch fart by the maintenance workers.

Very little of what they are doing is any different than what is done every day by other railroads in California - without EIR reports. And that includes CalTrain and BART. I checked.

Normally, what triggers the need for an EIR is a substantive improvement or expansion, not just repairing or maintaining what is already there. I believe the hokey idiots at NCRA submitted unnecessary reports, giving anybody with the filing fee a chance to file in court claiming it was inadequate. There is no such thing as an adequate report anyway.

Whether it is or not, is now irrelevant - the NIMBYS now have a wedge - and another local whacco liberal judge gets to rule on federal matters - at least until it gets to the federal court and his false jurisdiction is forcibly ended. His bias is blatantly obvious. That of course is why they filed in his court and not where it belonged. He should be impeached!

What a horible precedent! Can't even maintain existing trackage without an EIR? Wow!

Wait until you need an EIR for each flush - You might need to just hold it in until some whacky judge hears the case! Or to change a lightbulb? Oh I forgot, the Dems in congress already passed a law outlawing ordinary incandescent bulbs. The lightbulb police are a commin! I guess the dim-wits just want more dim-bulbs!

Hail the stupidity of the NCRA!