The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled to limit the scope of environmental review required under a seminal 1970s environmental protection law. The move brought a proposed 88-mile railroad line that would

The question for the justices was whether an agency had complied with a federal law by issuing a 3,600-page report on the impact of a proposed railway in Utah.

The U.S. Supreme Court has narrowed the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), making it easier for infrastructure projects to advance without fully accounting for broader environmental impacts,