Powder River Basin Resource Council v. United States Bureau of Land Management

ELR Citation: 44 ELR 20072
No(s). 12-cv-00996 (D.D.C. Mar 28, 2014) (Rothstein, J.)

A district court dismissed environmental groups' claims that BLM violated NEPA when it approved a plan for developing a coal bed natural gas lease in an area of Wyoming's Powder River Basin as well as amendments to the applicable resource management plan for the area. The groups claimed that BLM aba...