A three-person panel of judges determined that the Surface Transportation Board’s review of a planned project to construct an 85-mile-long rail line in the Uinta Basin in Utah that would carry crude oil was insufficient and lacked substance in part because it didn’t delve deeply into the project’s environmental ramifications. The decision puts the project into timeline limbo.
“Despite its protestations to the contrary, the Board cannot ignore and, in the past, has not ignored serious concerns...