Environmentalists and others fighting the proposed Unita Basin Railway, the pone that would carry oil from Utah and across western Colorado and eventually to Oklahoma’s Cushing hub, won a federal appeals court order to block the project.
The Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Appeals Court struck down previous government approval of the project and ruled that a 2021 environmental impact statement and biological opinion from the federal Surface Transportation Board were rushed and violated federal laws.
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