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Controversial Utah oil railroad sent ‘back to the drawing board’

Federal agencies overseeing the proposed Uinta Basin Railway, which would triple the region’s fossil fuel exports, must re-evaluate the project’s environmental impacts.

(Rick Bowmer | AP Photo) A train transports freight on a common carrier line near Price, Utah on July 13, 2023. The Uinta Basin Railway, which would connect to common carrier lines, would be an 88-mile line in Utah that would run through tribal lands and national forest land to move Utah's oil and gas to the national rail network.