Non-profits move to halt CSX rail repairs along Nolichucky

Two non-profits suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies over CSX’s rail repair work in the Nolichucky River gorge have asked a federal court to temporarily halt those agencies’ approvals for the work. The lawsuit claims the agencies are allowing CSX’s post-disaster work along roughly seven miles of destroyed rail line inside the gorge without having appropriate safeguards in place to protect the river and the habitat that lives inside the remote area. The motion argues that the current activity is causing irreparable harm, both environmentally and economically in the case of the whitewater rafting community.