Environmental Advantages

The Steel Interstate delivers a cleaner, greener, lighter footprint on the landscape than commensurate highway construction and use. The Steel Interstate System would dramatically reduce America's contribution to climate change from our transportation sector. Trains fit into a development pattern that promotes sound land use policies and positive results for energy conservation, air and water quality, and livable communities for human beings, forests, and wildlife. We strongly recommend you also investigate our response to a congressional proposal to convert over-the-road trucking to natural gas--a proposal we think is dangerously wrongheaded.