(October 3, 2024, 9:24 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Various parties, including members of the energy sector, states, federal legislators and business advocacy groups have filed a total of 19 amicus curiae briefs, 18 of which support petitioners that want the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling that held that the Surface Transportation Board (STB) failed to adequately examine the risk of wildfires and the impact on groundwater posed by the construction of a proposed rail line in Utah that would carry products related to hydraulic fracturing to and from the shale formation in the Uinta Basin. In one of the amicus briefs that is representative of those supporting the petition, the Anschutz Exploration Corp. says the lower court did not heed the instruction of Dep’t of Transp. v. Public Citizen....