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

The federal district court for the District of Montana dismissed a lawsuit that sought to compel the U.S. The records included spreadsheets tracking and analyzing comments, draft ANPRM fact sheets, meeting agendas, and emails and meeting invitations regarding CEQ’s process for managing comments. Southern Environmental Law Center v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

Supreme Court Denied Montana and Wyoming’s Challenge to Washington Actions that Barred Coal Exports. The District of Utah held that the lease suspensions merely maintained the status quo and therefore were not major federal actions subject to NEPA; the conservation groups therefore lacked standing. City of Oakland , No.

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