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Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON― A federal appeals court panel will hear arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by conservation groups challenging the U.S. Surface Transportation Board’s approval of the proposed Uinta Basin Railway. The railway, which could facilitate the quadrupling of oil extraction in northeast Utah’s Uinta Basin, would move crude from Utah through Colorado to Gulf Coast refineries.

UTAH — Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is the latest state official to decry a proposed Utah rail project that could result in a daily procession of trains carrying crude oil through sensitive Colorado River watersheds and the...

Cities across the Wasatch Front are preparing for higher stream flows and potentially more flooding in the coming days, as high temperatures are expected to return to the state.

A railway project in Eastern Utah is drawing significant pushback in Colorado as elected officials voice concerns about crude oil risks to the Colorado River, which is the West’s primary freshwater ri...

Cities across the Wasatch Front are preparing for higher stream flows and potentially more flooding in the coming days, as high temperatures are expected to return to the state.