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STB declines to reconfigure coal rate analysis

Friday, March 22, 2013

The U.S. Surface Transportation Board has rejected a petition by the Association of American Railroads to consider product and geographic competition when analyzing whether rail rates for coal transportation are reasonable. The STB stopped including non-transportation factors in its analysis in 1998. The agency filed its petition in November, saying that indirect competition from sources outside transportation modes was adversely affecting rail rates. Prod...

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