Law360 (March 27, 2026, 4:49 PM EDT) — A Colorado county has accused the U.S. Department of the Interior of unlawfully fast-tracking the approval of a Utah oil-by-rail transportation expansion project by misusing its emergency authority to bypass meaningful environmental review and public feedback.

A complaint filed Thursday in Washington, D.C., federal court by Eagle County, Colorado,takes aim at the Bureau of Land Management’s July authorization of a proposed expansion of the Wildcat loading facility. The project would quadruple the amount of crude oil from Utah’s Uinta Basin that could be transferred from trucks to trains that would carry the oil through Colorado, including Eagle County.

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Kaplan Kirsch attorneys Nate Hunt, Christian Alexander and Rebecca Glenn represent Eagle County, Colorado and were mentioned as part of this 3/27/26 piece in Law360.