Bennet, Neguse join lawmakers in opposition to Uinta Basin railway

This story first appeared in The Outsider, the premium outdoor newsletter by Jason Blevins.

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GLENWOOD CANYON — As the politicians bemoaned a potential spike in the number of tanker cars carrying waxy crude through Glenwood Canyon, Shelby Massey was going fishing. 

“What’s going on?” the fly fishing guide asked, as he dropped his dory into the river at the Grizzly Creek boat ramp a few feet from a gaggle of lawmakers at a riverside dais drumming up support for the fight against a project routing billions of gallons of Uinta Basin crude along the river-hugging railroad.

Massey had heard about the Uinta Basin train plan. 

“But I did…