Coal-hauling railroads are unlikely to see significant benefit from Paris withdrawal

June 12, 2017

(Source: Omaha World-Herald, June 11, 2017)

OMAHA, Neb. — At Omaha-based railroad Union Pacific — which got 14 percent of revenue from hauling coal last quarter — the official reaction to the withdrawal from the fossil- fuel hostile Paris agreement was the opposite of what some might have expected.