Petitioners: High Court Should Hear Fracking Railway Case To Address Scope Of NEPA

( May 31, 2024, 1:12 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two petitioners challenging a ruling 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 filed a reply brief in the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that it should review the case to address the proper scope of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)....