The U.S. Supreme Court has opened the door to faster environmental permitting for infrastructure, including natural gas pipelines and power plants, after limiting the scope of required assessments.
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The unanimous ruling issued last week, in which Justice Neil M. Gorsuch recused, found that the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) had done enough to consider the environmental impacts of an 88-mile freight railway in northeastern Utah, proposed in 2020.
STB in 2021 approved the railway, designed to connect Uinta Basin oilfields to a system that moves crude supply to the Gulf Coast.