Kim Raff, The New York Times
Paul Thompson directs workers testing Petroteq’s then-new oil sands processing plant near Vernal, Utah, in the Uinta Basin on Aug. 16, 2018. A proposed 85-mile rail line would allow drilling operations in the Uinta Basin to expand and ship Existing drilling operations waxy crude oil to refineries in Texas and Louisiana. The line would run through Colorado, likely alongside Interstate 70 and the Colorado River. 
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Development has paused on a proposed railway that would haul millions of gallons of crude oil through Colorado after a federal appeals court on Friday found significant deficiencies in analyses of potential environmental impacts like increased wildfire risk and potential spills into the Colorado River basin.
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