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Rail News Home Kansas City Southern 7/2/2021 Rail News: Kansas City Southern
Kansas City Southern yesterday released its 2020 sustainability report titled "For the Long Haul: Delivering Prosperity, Valuing People, Protecting the Planet."Available in the corporate responsibility section of kcsouthern.com, the report shows KCS in 2020:• improved its U.S. and Mexico consolidated frequency rate of reportable workplace injuries and illnesses by 27%;
• committed to do its part in the fight against climate change and partnered with the Science Based Target Initiative to set an ambitious carbon-reduction target. KCS has committed to reducing its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions per million gross ton-miles at least 42% by 2034, from a 2019 base year;
• avoided the use of 21.2 million gallons of diesel fuel; this is an additional nearly 7 million gallons avoided compared to 2019 due to the implementation of fuel-efficient technologies; and
• held 24 diversity, equity and inclusion roundtable sessions across the United States and Mexico with its President and Chief Executive Officer Patrick Ottensmeyer and more than 200 participants. The forum provided employees a space to share their views on workplace equity, inclusion and opportunities for KCS improvements.The report follows the Global Reporting Initiative's latest standards for disclosing governance, economic, social and environmental topics and is in alignment with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board and Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures frameworks. The frameworks provide for the disclosure of measurable data and specific information related to sustainability, KCS officials said in a press release.

Rail News Home BNSF Railway 7/1/2021 Rail News: BNSF Railway
BNSF Railway Co. has given two new locations in Montana and Texas its Certified Sites designation.The Class I now has four certified sites in Montana and three in Texas.To earn the designation, sites must undergo a thorough analysis that includes an evaluation of environmental and geotechnical standards, available utilities, site availability, and existing and projected infrastructure, BNSF officials said in a news release.The goal of the Certified Sites program is to provide an inventory of rail-served sites that are available for immediate development, they said. So far, BNSF offers 29 of the sites, all of which provide direct rail service.The two newly-designated Certified Sites, which feature acreage ready for industrial development, are:• Somerville Industrial in Somerville, Texas, which offers 103 acres without zoning requirements or restrictions and is located east of State Highway 36, about 20 miles outside of Bryan-College Station; and• Fort Peck Tribal Industrial Park in Poplar, Montana, which is zoned for heavy industrial. The site encompasses 45 acres located north of U.S. Highway 2 on the Fort Peck Reservation outside city limits.Certified Sites are a part of the Class I's Premier Parks, Sites and Transload program, which addresses increasing demand for customer site locations by developing various types of facilities across the railroad's network, BNSF officials said.