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Center for Biological Diversity v. United States Bureau of Land Management
A district court vacated BLM's final EIS and 2019 record of decision (ROD) that approved an open-pit phosphate mine in southeast Idaho. Environmental groups had argued the ROD and final EIS upon which it was based violated NEPA, FLPMA, and the CWA. The court granted summary judgment in part for the ...
Sierra Club v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
The D.C. Circuit granted in part environmental groups' petitions to review FERC orders allowing the Mountain Valley Pipeline project to proceed. The groups argued FERC erred by allowing construction to resume before the pipeline owner reacquired all its other permits, that constructing segments of t...
Resilient Carbon
Carbon offsets allow polluters to pay someone else to reduce, avoid, or remove emissions to counterbalance their own emissions. For some, carbon accounting concerns render offsets a necessary evil to be tightly regulated on the path toward decarbonization. For others, moral and political concerns render offsets a dangerous mistake to be thrown out of the climate law toolbox.