CSX’s Zacker honoured for environmental stewardship

The Association of American Railroads (AAR) has awarded CSX Transportation’s Brian Zacker the 2019 Professional Environmental Excellence Award, the industry’s highest honor for environmental professionals. The award was presented to Zacker at the 2019 Railroad Environmental Conference in Urbana, Illinois.

Brian Zacker has worked in the environmental industry for 25 years – 10 of them in the rail industry – and has successfully integrated environmental stewardship across multiple departments at CSX. As Senior Manager Environmental Field Services in Tampa, FL, he has reshaped how the railroad stages rail materials to systematically ensure that supplies are properly reused and recycled reducing costs and eliminating stormwater impacts from stray materials. He has also launched initiatives to centralise and streamline the proper management of hazardous materials and used oil. Zacker’s work has leveraged the company’s engineering teams to execute environmental work such as cleaning up third party illegal dump sites, laying track matting and restoring stormwater drainage.

Zacker serves as a member of the Environmental Crimes Unit board for a three-county area where he lends his expertise in investigations of violations of environmental law. He also is a member of the Surfrider Foundation and participates in local beach cleanups and other conservation efforts.

In addition to Zacker, five other railroad environmental professionals were nominated for the 2019 Environmental Excellence Award. The other nominees are as follows:

David Brogliatto – Canadian National Railway, Christopher M. Hunsicker – Norfolk Southern Corporation, Jim Levy – Union Pacific Railroad, Edward (Eddie) Phillips – BNSF Railway, Juan Telesforo Hurtado Rico – KCS De’Mexico.

For more information visit www.aar.org

11th November 2019