Fracking

A state judge has dismissed the railroad industry’s case against safety rules for crude-by-rail shipments.

Earthjustice and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance recently won a court case that will force the Bureau of Land Management to minimize the impacts of off-road vehicles and to conduct detailed inventories of Native American cultural sites on over 2 million acres of scenic public lands.

As water supplies dry up, groundwater drilling is leading to collapsed bridges, cracked irrigation canals and pipes, and twisted roads and railways. In some places, the ground is sinking nearly one foot a year.