(May 11, 2017, 9:39 AM EDT) -- SEATTLE — A federal judge in Washington on May 2 approved a settlement between a number of environmental groups and BNSF Railway Co. in which the company will 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 (Sierra Club, et al. v. BNSF Railway Company, No. C13-967, W.D. Wash.)....