A district court preliminarily enjoined BLM from implementing its 2019 amendments to plans for oil and gas permitting and licensing on greater sage-grouse habitat in seven states. Environmental groups argued that the six EISs that BLM issued to amend the plans violated NEPA by failing to consider re...

The Tenth Circuit denied a motion to hold in abeyance a lawsuit concerning EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' 2015 Clean Water Rule. It did decide, however, to consider whether to dismiss the case in light of the Trump Administration's repeal and eventual replacement of the rule, and therefor...

A district court denied a motion to dismiss or transfer a lawsuit concerning greater sage-grouse habitat management plans. Environmental groups argued that BLM violated NEPA, FLPMA, and the National Forest Management Act when it issued amendments to the plans that failed to take a range-wide analysi...