US supreme court sides with Utah railway project challenged by environmentalists
by Nina Lakhani and agencies from Environment | The Guardian on (#6XM47)
The 8-0 ruling overturns lower court's decision that halted the project intended to transport crude oil
The US supreme court on Thursday backed a multibillion-dollar oil railroad expansion in Utah, endorsing a scaled-back interpretation of a key environmental law that could pave the way for faster fossil fuel expansion.
In a unanimous ruling, the supreme court justices overturned a lower court's decision that had halted the fossil fuel project on the grounds that an environmental impact assessment by a federal agency had been too limited in scope.
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