ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The federal district court for the District of Columbia granted BLM’s and federal officials’ motion for voluntary remand without vacatur of claims that they failed to comply with NEPA in connection with 27 oil and gas leasing decisions across Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Montana between September 2016 and March 2019.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

After Temporarily Blocking Activity on Helium Extraction Project in Southeastern Utah, Federal Court Denied Emergency Injunctive Relief. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) of a helium extraction project in an area of the San Rafael Desert in southeastern Utah covered by an oil and gas lease sold in December 2018. 20-472 (U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

BLM Dropped Appeal of Adverse Decision on Environmental Review for Utah Coal Mine Expansion. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the federal government’s unopposed motion for voluntary dismissal of its appeal of a March 2021 District of Utah decision that found that the U.S. June 22, 2021). June 21, 2021).

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