Supreme Court backs Utah oil railroad expansion, endorsing limited version of key environmental law

The Supreme Court has backed a multibillion-dollar lipid railroad enlargement successful Utah, endorsing a constricted mentation of a cardinal biology law

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court backed a multibillion-dollar lipid railroad enlargement successful Utah connected Thursday, endorsing a constricted mentation of a cardinal biology law.

The unanimous decision comes aft an appeal to the precocious court from backers of the project, which is aimed astatine quadrupling lipid accumulation successful the distant country of sandstone and sagebrush. The backers said limiting the scope of biology reviews nether the National Environmental Policy Act would velocity up development.

The lawsuit centers connected the Uinta Basin Railway, a projected 88-mile (142-kilometer) enlargement that would link lipid and state producers to the broader obstruction network, allowing them to entree larger markets.

The justices reversed a lower tribunal decision and restored a captious support from national regulators connected the Surface Transportation Board. The task could inactive look further ineligible and regulatory hurdles.

Environmental groups and a Colorado region had argued that regulators indispensable see a wide scope of imaginable impacts erstwhile they see caller development.

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