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Oil railroad backers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive their project. But can they afford it?

Backers failed to secure funding from the Legislature.

(Rick Bowmer | AP) A train transports freight on a common carrier line near Price on Thursday, July 13, 2023. The Uinta Basin Railway could be an 88-mile line in Utah that would run through tribal lands and national forest to move oil and gas to the national rail network. After a court ruled that the railroad's backers didn't properly consider the project's environmental affects last year, they've taken their fight to the U.S. Supreme Court.