RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Our business news starts with General Electric. Not as green as the ads make it seem?</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, host: GE promotes itself as a corporation friendly to the environment. But the Wall Street Journal reports today that the company has quietly been trying to weaken smog controls for railroad locomotives.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, host: GE dominates the nearly $2 billion a year North American locomotive market. Environmental regulators are about to propose new rules to cut smog and soot levels. A GE official says his company is concerned over, quote, certain technologies. And while the company fundamentally agrees with regulators, he calls its proposal pretty aggressive.
The Wall Street Journal says General Electric has quietly tried to weaken smog controls for railroad locomotives. GE dominates the North American locomotive market. A GE official says his company is concerned over "certain technologies," and while the company fundamentally agrees with regulators, he calls their proposal "pretty aggressive."