The Uintah Railway was created out of desperation. Samuel Henry Gilson and his partner, Bert Seaboldt, had discovered the only commercially recoverable deposits of what became known as gilsonite in ...

On plateaus overlooking the Uinta Basin's hills of sandstone and sagebrush, pumpjacks bob their heads as they lift viscous black and yellow oil from the earth that will eventually make everything from ...

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The Uinta Basin Railway might have been derailed, but it can still get back on some kind of track. The US Court of Appeals sided with Eagle County, and other Colorado and local leaders, to halt the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A federal appeals court has hit the brakes on plans for a controversial rail project in eastern Utah. In a unanimous ruling handed down on Friday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a ruling in a lawsuit over the Uinta Basin Railway, limiting the reach of the National Environmental Policy Act. In a unanimous ruling, the justices ...

In early December 2020, Uintah County, Duchesne County and the Uintah Transportation Special Service District filed motions to intervene on behalf of the defendants. Officials representing these ...

VERNAL, Utah― Opponents of the proposed Uinta Basin Railway oil-train project will protest in Vernal Thursday to challenge continued funding of the rail line by Utah’s Permanent Community Impact Fund ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado politicians have apparently forgotten about the state’s historical second-class treatment of Native Americans and are repeating many of the same ...

There comes a phase in almost any large-scale, controversial project on public or private land when the questions arise and the lawsuits begin. The proposed Uinta Basin Railway is no different.

The Uinta Basin Railway might have been derailed, but it can still get back on some kind of track. The US Court of Appeals sided with Eagle County, and other Colorado and local leaders, to halt the ...