CSX Corporation Works To Limit Carbon Footprint

CSX Corporation, one of the nation's leading freight rail and intermodal transportation companies, today announced the results of its participation in the Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) 2011 Climate Corps program. This collaborative effort places specially-trained graduate students, known as "fellows" under the EDF program, from the nation's leading universities and colleges into a three-month fellowship with major employers to addresss climate-change related issues, such as reducing carbon emissions and improving energy efficiency. With a transportation network that extends 21,000 miles in 23 eastern states and the District of Columbia, connecting 240 short-line railroads and 70 ocean, river, and lake ports, CSX is one of the largest businesses to participate in the program.

In 2011, CSX and an EDF Climate Corps fellow examined the company's railyard air compressors and the CSX Data Center in Jacksonville, Florida. Using data gathered from both the railyard and the data center, he helped CSX to identify potential cost savings of $1.2 million and greenhouse gas emissions of savings of nearly 3,000 metric tons annually.

This marks CSX's second year of participation in the EDF Climate Corps program. In 2010, the CSX Climate Corps fellow identified annual savings of $165,000, 1.5 million kWh of electricity (enough to power 140 homes), and 940 metric tons of CO2 (equal to removing 150 SUV's from the road).

Partnering with EDF is part of CSX's overall climate change strategy, which also includes setting and achieving a voluntary eight percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions since 2006, as well as introducing 23 ultra-low emission GenSet locomotives throughout the CSX network. CSX has also invested more than $1.5 billion in the past decade to upgrade its locomotive fleet, including technological advancements that reduce air emission and fuel consumption. Through these collective efforts, CSX has improved its fuel efficiency by more than 90% since 1980.

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