Union Pacific Railroad | Sustainability Performance
Operates a freight railroad network providing transportation services for various commodities.
1862
United States
10,001+ employees
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
$10B+ in revenue
$1B - 10B in profitability
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Sustainability Ranking & Industry Benchmark
#12598
Overallⓘ#2894
in United Statesⓘ#120
in Transportation/Trucking/RailroadⓘSustainability Maturity
ⓘSustainability Intent
ⓘOverview
Environmental
Carbon emissionsEnergy consumptionWaste ManagementWater ManagementAir & land impactNature and biodiversitySocial
Diversity and InclusionPay GapsHealth and SafetyExternalitiesGovernance
SDG ImpactFinancial Data
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Critical
Laggard
Critical
Critical
Aligned
Intensity
Greenhouse gas intensity Scope 1, 2 (tCO₂e /$M)
Greenhouse gas intensity (Scope 1, 2, 3)(tCO₂e /$M)
Energy consumption (direct) intensity (MWh /$M)
Industry Benchmark
387.5
B/M 111.5
584.8
B/M 361.9
1.6K
B/M 308.9
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Controversy level
- The company's rail yards have been linked to community health and environmentaljustice controversies, most prominently the company's Houston, Texas (Englewood) rail yard in the Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens, where decades of woodpreserving creosote contamination from the site have been associated by the Texas Department of State Health Services with a documented cancer cluster among predominantly Black and Latino residents, prompting U.S. Environmental Protection Agency involvement and communityrelocation demands.
Sustainability employees
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11+
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