In Bergen County, N.J., officials are fighting to close five unauthorized waste-rail businesses.
In recent years, as New York has increasingly exported its waste by rail instead of in trucks, life has become unbearable for residents alongside the Fresh Pond rail yard, where trains are assembled and disassembled, wheels shrieking and cars crashing all night.
From there, the CSX freight line takes the waste by rail to other states, Mr. Rimando said.
Railroad companies and environmental watchdogs both agree that shipping such waste by rail is an effective way of keeping thousands of exhaust-belching trucks off the roads.
As the state's highways become more congested (and adding road capacity makes less economic and environmental sense), shipping goods (and debris and waste) by rail freight becomes a more attractive option, complementing industry interest in growth and the public interest in environmental quality, economic growth and sustainability.
Even the clearest information, the regularly updated "pipeline" of more than 500 infrastructure projects published by the Treasury, is often scant on detail: hundreds of energy, flooding, waste, road and rail investments are lacking a start date, while dozens of others are given a clearly erroneous start or finish date of 1905.
The scene is repeated dozens of times a day at seven rail waste-transfer stations throughout the state.
There are 13 skaters, each with a distinctive style that players can control as they lay waste to ramps, rails and assorted obstacles.
You normally can't go to the toilet and flush it until you leave the station (they dispose of the waste on the rails so they don't want any smells in the station), so I guess you can urinate and don't flush the toilet, but don't do a number two as the next person inside the toilet really does not want to see it.
Isn't this a better, more positive way of making people think about waste than simply to rail against it for, say, the damage it does to the planet?
