Patrick Fuchs chairs the Surface Transportation Board, the federal regulator of the nation’s freight railroads, and the agency deciding the proposed Union Pacific–Norfolk Southern merger. He argues the board’s 1980s competition rules have never delivered a single remedy for shippers and should go, and that faster permitting doesn’t have to cost the environment.
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The Deciders is hosted by Brody Mullins and Lisa Camooso Miller and produced by Dave Tobey
