Supreme Court Hears Arguments On Proper Scope Of NEPA In Fracking Railway Case

( December 5, 2024, 1:26 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Attorneys presented oral arguments on Dec. 10 before the U.S. Supreme Court debating whether the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires a federal agency to study the environmental consequences of projects beyond the proximate effects caused by the specific action over which that agency has regulatory authority, specifically in relation to a case in which petitioners seek reversal of a ruling finding 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 rail line in Utah that would carry crude oil from hydraulic fracturing operations at the shale formation in the Uinta Basin....

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