The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Dec. 10 about whether a lower court was wrong to overturn a federal agency’s approval of a proposed rail line for transporting crude oil.
In the case, known as Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, the Biden administration is opposing environmentalist groups that do not want the 88-mile rail line to be built to connect the shale oil-rich Uinta Basin region in northeastern Utah to the national rail network and out-of-state oil refineries.
