The Supreme Court's latest decision will make it easier to build stuff, good and bad

Supreme Court ruled that a proposed rail line that would run through Utah 's oil-rich Uinta Basin can't be built.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh argued that a lower court relied upon a federal law that prevented this line from being constructed.

He says the court's opinion in Seven County places strict new limits on a law that was used to block the project.

The ruling significantly weakens a statute that has long been a bête noire of developers.

Sotomayor: An agency is not required to consider environmental harms that it has “no authority to prevent.

So Seven County is a fairly significant victory for land developers as well as libertarians.