A U.S. Supreme Court ruling this year had big implications for both western Colorado and national application of an ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on June 24 to consider reviving a critical approval for a railroad project that would carry crude oil and boost fossil fuel production in rural eastern Utah. The ...

Coloradans fight the oil train project, fearing a repeat of East Palestine’s toxic derailment — but in the Colorado River. A proposed 85-mile oil railway through Ashley National Forest, in the ...

The proponents of a planned short-line Utah railroad that would dramatically increase oil-train traffic through Colorado last week filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking a review of ...

Two of Colorado’s Democratic members of Congress on Tuesday called on yet another federal agency to put the brakes on a proposed Utah railway that could send up to five oil trains per day through ...

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Public-sector backers of a proposed bond-financed crude oil-transporting railway in Utah are turning to the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress in an effort to get the project back on track. The Seven ...

A proposed crude oil-transporting Utah railway project, which would be financed with private-activity bonds, will officially lose key federal approval next week, following another legal setback this ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a setback to environmentalists on Thursday by allowing federal agencies to limit the scope of their review of the environmental impact of projects they ...

On plateaus overlooking the Uinta Basin's hills of sandstone and sagebrush, pumpjacks bob their heads as they lift viscous black and yellow oil from the earth that will eventually make everything from ...

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse of Colorado on Monday wrote a letter to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack urging him to formally suspend federal authorization of a Utah rail ...

The Surface Transportation Board’s (STB) Office of Environmental Analysis has released a Final Environmental Assessment (EA) for Savage Tooele Railroad Company’s proposal to construct and operate an ...