Center for Biological Diversity: SALT LAKE CITY The U.S. Forest Service has rejected challenges to the Uinta Basin Railway, saying the project is in the public interest even as it predicts the oil railway could increase climate pollution in the U.S. by nearly 1%.
The Utah Lake Restoration Project, spearheaded by Lake Restoration Solutions, is a proposed solution to dredge Utah Lake and build manmade islands. However groups like the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance have signed onto a petition to fight the project and the legislation that would permit it.