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Eastern Utah wants an oil railroad. The nation’s highest court will decide how feds should judge its environmental impacts.

The Uinta Basin Railway, if built, could quintuple oil exports from eastern Utah.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) An oil derrick is seen on state trust land within the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in Ballard on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. The U.S. Supreme Court will soon weigh in on the environmental impacts of the proposed Uinta Basin Railway, which could quintuple oil experts from the region.