U.S. High Court Grants Petition In Fracking Railway Case On Scope Of NEPA

(June 24, 2024, 10:36 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 granted review of a lawsuit in which an infrastructure coalition argues 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.  The coalition asked the justices to address the proper scope of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)....