( October 21, 2024, 12:24 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Colorado county on Oct. 18 filed a respondent’s brief in the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that the petitioners that want it to reverse a lower court ruling that held that the Surface Transportation Board (STB) failed to adequately examine the risk of wildfires and the impact on groundwater posed by the construction of a proposed rail line in Utah that would carry products related to hydraulic fracturing to and from the shale formation in the Uinta Basin and now ask the Supreme Court to impose limits on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) “that have no basis in its text whatsoever.” The same day, environmental groups filed their respondents’ brief contending that the lower court reached a “sensible result” and reversal is not warranted....