Utah oil-train builder hires Roger Stone as lobbyist PolitocoPro Article Text: BY Timothy Cama,Ian M. Stevenson | 01/15/2026 06:22 AM EST E&E DAILY | Roger Stone, the longtime political adviser to President Donald Trump, is lobbying for a company hoping to expand oil-by-rail shipments out of Utah’s Uinta Basin. Stone’s Drake Ventures disclosed the lobbying agreement in a congressional filing this

We call on Colorado AG Weiser to join the 15 other state Attorneys General in their suit against the fake “energy emergency” that violates the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act, among other key environmental laws. You’ve already heard about the Uinta Basin Oil Train that we’ve been fighting for years… well, there’s

Major Setback: US Supreme Court Sends Case back to Lower Courts: On 5/29/25, the US Supreme Court ruled 8-0 in favor of the UBR project, overturning an appeals court decision and sending the UBR case back to a lower court for consideration.  Justices indicated that the deleterious environmental effects of extracting and burning the massive

US Supreme Court Agrees to hear UBR Case: On 3/4/24, the Uinta Basin Railway project’s backers asked the US Supreme Court to restore the permits and allow the UBR project to be built, and on 6/24/24 the Supreme Court agreed to review the case, which is now scheduled for Dec 10, 2024.  In a positive

Encouraging News: The Uinta Basin Railway Project has lost an important approval: On 1/17/24, the US Forest Service formally withdrew a federal permit for a key section of the Uinta Basin Railway Project.  This part of the oil train route would have plowed through the protected “Inventoried Roadless Area” of Ashley National Forest in Utah. 

Great News – the Uinta Basin Railway project has been halted (for now): On Friday (8/18/23) a federal judge ruled that the Surface Transportation Board did not adequately account for the community risks, environmental damage and uncertain financial viability of the Uinta Basin Railway Project when it granted its approval in 2021.  This means that

Colorado Rising has joined the fight to prevent the construction of the Uinta Basin Railway which would enable the transport of heated crude oil traincars through Utah and Colorado.  Here is some background and what we’ve been up to: We have created multiple action alerts encouraging our supporters to send their comments to President Biden,