On Oct. 4, at the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) 31st Annual Clean Air Awards, BNSF, along with project partners San Bernardino County Council of Governments (SBCOG) and BYD, was honored with the Model Community Achievement Award which recognizes “an exceptional single program or comprehensive strategy that improves air quality and sustainability in…
The Southern California International Gateway (SCIG) would have been a $500+ million investment by BNSF to build a new, state of the art intermodal railyard facility located within four miles of the San Pedro Bay ports, resulting in improvement of both traffic congestion and air quality in the region. BNSF committed to making SCIG the greenest intermodal facility in the U.S., by investing more than $130 million in green technology, including electric cranes, ultra-low emissions switching locomotives and liquefied natural gas (LNG) or equivalent yard equipment.
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