Sierra Club: BNSF Railway To Spend $1M To Clean Up Coal Dust

(November 16, 2016, 1:23 PM EST) -- SEATTLE — The Sierra Club announced on its website on Nov. 15 that the environmental group had reached a settlement in principle with BNSF Railway Co. that would require the company to spend $1 million on conservation and restoration projects in Washington and clean up and remove coal dust from areas near waterways where the company’s trains carry coal to resolve a lawsuit in Washington federal court (Sierra Club, et al. v. BNSF Railway Company, No. C13-967, W.D. Wash.)....

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