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      Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg delivers remarks to the press

      Buttigieg Urged to Block Federal Funding for 'Carbon Bomb' Railway Along Colorado River

      "The project could result in as many as five, two-mile-long crude-oil trains running over 100 miles directly alongside the headwaters of the Colorado River each day," Colorado Democrats warned.

      Jake Johnson
      Mar 10, 2023

      With the toxic train derailment in eastern Ohio still in the national spotlight, Democratic members of Colorado's congressional delegation are imploring U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to do everything he can to head off another potential railway disaster—one that could impact a river that supplies drinking water to 40 million Americans.

      In a letter to Buttiegieg on Thursday, Sens. Michael Bennet, John Hickenlooper, and Rep. Joe Neguse warned the secretary against approving a key federal funding mechanism for the Uinta Basin Railway, a project that aims to connect eastern Utah's oil-rich Uinta Basin with the national rail system in order to massively expand fossil fuel production in the region.

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      Firefighters respond after a train carrying crude oil derailed on December 22, 2020 in Custer, Washington.

      'Climate Denial': Forest Service Sued for Approving Crude Oil Railway in Utah

      "The planet is roasting in record heat, forest fires are raging, the Great Salt Lake is drying up, and yet the Forest Service is willing to make all these problems worse by paving the way for more oil production," said one climate campaigner.

      Kenny Stancil
      Sep 09, 2022

      A coalition of environmental groups sued the U.S. Forest Service on Thursday for approving the construction of an oil railway through a protected roadless area of the Ashley National Forest in Utah, arguing that the decision unlawfully fails to consider how more planet-heating emissions would further harm Earth's climate and how bulldozers would damage local ecosystems.

      "Forest Service just dismissed this staggering amount of new oil production as insignificant... That's climate denial."

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      A BNSF freight train hauling tankers loaded with crude oil heads west through a transcontinental railroad hub on June 22, 2018 in Whitefish, Montana, home to Glacier National Park.

      Biden Accused of Lighting Fuse for 'One of the Nation's Biggest Carbon Bombs'

      "This is pouring another 5 billion gallons of oil on the fire every year and bulldozing a national forest in the process," said one critic. "It's a horrifying step in the wrong direction."

      Kenny Stancil
      Jul 07, 2022

      The Biden administration came under fire this week after paving the way for an oil railway that its own projections suggest would increase planet-heating pollution in the United States by almost 1%.

      "Unleashing this destructive flood of oil is climate cowardice."

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