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 (Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, et al. v. Eagle County, Colo., et al., No. 23-975, U.S. Sup.)....

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