 In 2000, Trailer Bridge joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Wise Program to collaborate with others on innovative ways to boost energy efficiencies and improve pollution conditions.Then, in 2006, it joined the SmartWaySM Transport Partnership where the EPA and freight industry work together to not only increase energy efficiencies and improve air pollution, but also to reduce greenhouse gases.Its efforts in this organization earned it the SmartWaySM Transport Partnership's Environmental Excellence Award.