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Voices: Why our group of Utah physicians sued to stop the Uinta Basin Railway

If a commitment to empirical evidence, a scientific-based world view, protecting human health, the common good and the future of human kind are denigrated as “extremist,” it’s an honor to be labeled as such.

(Rick Bowmer | AP Photo) A train transports freight on a common carrier line near Price, Utah on Thursday, July 13, 2023. Uinta Basin Railway, which would connect to common carrier lines, 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. Critics question investing billions in oil and gas infrastructure as the country seeks to use less of the fossil fuels that worsen climate change.