ELR Citation: 42 ELR 20101
No(s). 10-0254-WS-C (S.D. Ala. May 8, 2012) (Steele, J.)

A district court held that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE) did not violate NEPA or the ESA when it accepted over 300 bids for oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon disaster. An environmental group argued that the ag...