By Utah Valley Times |
Sep 5, 2024
U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) has joined a group of colleagues, led by Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), in filing an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the United States. The brief opposes what they describe as an extreme judicial expansion of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and supports the construction of the Uinta Basin Railway, an 88-mile rail line proposed to connect eastern Utah's oil-rich Uinta Basin region to the national rail network.