Union Pacific Railroad received the award for Green Leadership in Transportation from the Sacramento Business Journal. The award recognizes companies, agencies and individuals demonstrating a strong commitment to making the Sacramento region a thriving hub for clean technology. <br /><br />Union Pacific consistently works to reduce locomotive emissions by developing and implementing new technology, said Mike Iden, Union Pacific general director, car and locomotive engineering. This award recognizes our industry-leading role in emissions reduction and the positive impact that these efforts have on the communities where we operate trains. <br /><br />Union Pacific's Green Leadership Award stems from the company's $20 million investment to launch a series of 25 experimental locomotives based in California as part of a rigorous test of emissions-reducing technologies. This initiative is Union Pacific's latest effort to further reduce emissions and move closer to the U.S. EPA's Tier 4 locomotive emissions st
