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Colorado county, environmentalists file Supreme Court briefs opposing Utah oil train project

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Freight trains sit idle in railyards in Grand Junction, Colorado, on May 16, 2023.

Colorado’s Eagle County and a coalition of environmental groups are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject what they called an attempt to “dramatically remake� federal environmental law by the backers of a controversial oil-by-rail project in eastern Utah.

First proposed in 2019, the 88-mile Uinta Basin Railway would connect Utah’s largest oil field to the national rail network, allowing drillers there to ship large volumes of the basin’s “waxy� crude oil to Gulf Coast refineries � with the vast majority of the traffic routed through Colorado.



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