ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Federal Court Found Flaws in New Climate Change Analysis for Wyoming Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the District of Columbia ruled that the U.S. The federal defendants in the instant case said they had concluded that further analysis under NEPA was appropriate for all but three of the leasing decisions.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

They alleged that BLM was “poised to approve” the helium drilling project despite not having finalized the “curative” NEPA analysis it had undertaken in response to the district court’s March 2019 decision in WildEarth Guardians v. The plaintiffs alleged that BLM recognized, based on WildEarth Guardians v. 4:20-cv-00115 (D.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

After the Louisiana federal court issued the nationwide injunction, the federal district court for the District of Wyoming issued a sua sponte order in a separate case challenging the pause on new onshore leasing. On June 30, the Wyoming federal court denied the motions without prejudice, finding that they were “materially moot.”

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