BNSF Railway

Parent Organization: Berkshire Hathaway

The BNSF Railway (reporting mark BNSF), formerly known as the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, is an American freight railroad company headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas; it is one of four remaining transcontinental railroads and one of the largest freight railroad networks in North America. Only the Union Pacific Railroad, its primary competitor for Western U.S. freight, is larger in size. The BNSF Railway moves more intermodal freight traffic than any other rail system in the world.[citation needed]

Source: Wikipedia

Campaign Finance

$1,726,052 Given
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  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

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View all campaign finance data for BNSF Railway Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Lobbying

$11,810,000 Spent
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Lobbying on Behalf of BNSF Railway

View all lobbying data for BNSF Railway Sources: Lobbyist Registration Tracker OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 220 dockets; Submitted to 7 dockets
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All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated daily from Regulations.gov by way of Docket Wrench

The tables show occurrences of "BNSF Railway" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

Federal Spending

1 contract
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Federal grants, contracts and loans are reported by federal agencies using the FPDS and FAADS systems. The data is made available to the public at USASpending.gov. Please note that the completeness and quality of the data varies greatly by agency.

Only grants, contracts and loans with amounts over $1 million are shown.

Because company names are not reported in a standardized manner, we cannot reliably determine the company receiving the contract or award. The results shown here are based on a search for the company name. Individual records may be missed or erroneously included because of name variations. For more information, please see our federal spending methodology page.

Note: Company names in federal spending data are not standardized. The table below is included only as a sample of what is available in the data and has not been reviewed for accuracy or completeness. To investigate the data further, use the links at the bottom of the table.

Type Recipient Name Year Agency Description Amount
contract
 Bnsf Railway Company 2009 U.S. Coast Guard TAS::70 0618::TAS REPLACE EXISTING SWING SPAN BURLINGTON BRIDGE OVER UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER LOCATED IN BURLINGTON IA WITH VERTICAL LIFT BRIDGE THAT MAINTAINS THE EXISTING ALIGNMENT, AND PROVIDES A 300 FT HORIZONTAL CLEARANCE/ 60 FT VERTICAL CLEARANCE. DECLARED BY USCG TO BE UNREASONABLY OBSTRUCTION TO NAVIGATION AND BNSF RECEIVED ORDER TO ALTER. $36,445,756
View all grant & loan data for BNSF Railway View all contract data for BNSF Railway Sources: USASpending.gov

EPA Violations

2 Enforcement Actions
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Figures are based on data from the Environmental Protection Agency’s ECHO website. The ECHO database contains federal and state environmental enforcement actions. Data displayed here includes only those actions that began after 2000 and resulted in fines of over $1 million.

Actions where the company was the sole defendant are listed first. Actions where the company is one of multiple defendants are listed subsequently.

For more information see our EPA methodology page.

Case Name Defendant Date Locations Amount
Chemical Commodities; Ashland Bnsf Railway Company (+9 others) 2009 Olathe, Ks $14,377,138
Bunker Hill: Wallace Yard Removal Bnsf Railway Company (+1 others) 2010 Kellogg, Id $6,509,964
View all EPA violations data for BNSF Railway Sources: EPA ECHO Enforcement Data

Advisory Committees

7 people on 4 committees
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Data is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.

The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.

Table shows employees of "BNSF Railway" that sat on federal advisory committees.

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  • Representation
  • Toggle Surface Transportation Board 6 people on 2 committees
  • Toggle Department of Energy 1 person on 1 committee
  • Toggle Department of Transportation 1 person on 1 committee
View all advisory committee data for BNSF Railway