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Bennet warns railway project would endanger Colorado River basin

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Sen. Michael Bennet (D) is asking the Biden administration to pump the brakes on a railway project. Bennet says the project could contaminate the Colorado River basin if a train derailment spills crude oil into the famed river's headwaters. The project would connect shale oil fields in Utah's Uinta Basin to the national rail network, sending up to 350,000 barrels a day through Colorado.

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Bennet warns railway project would endanger Colorado River basin

Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet (D) is asking the Biden administration to pump the brakes on a railway project that he warns could contaminate the Colorado River basin if a train derailment spills crude oil into the famed river’s headwaters. In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack dated Monday, Bennet asked the Department of […]

1 year ago·Washington, United States

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