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89 FR 2944

EPA adopted DOE’s electric vehicle charging stations categorical exclusion under NEPA.

89 FR 2214

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency adopted the Department of the Navy’s categorical exclusion under NEPA for the installation and operation of passive scientific measurement devices. 

Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic v. Bureau of Land Management

A district court denied Indigenous and environmental groups' motion for injunction pending appeal of their challenge to BLM's approval of an oil and gas development project in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The groups initially sought to preliminarily enjoin construction through the remainde...

Earth Island Institute v. United States Forest Service

The Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for the Forest Service in a challenge to its approval of a logging project in Inyo National Forest. Environmental groups argued the Service failed to adequately consider alternatives, failed to solicit public comments following its 2018 EA, and failed to s...

88 FR 85838

OSM approved, with two deferrals, an amendment to the Virginia regulatory program under SMCRA.

88 FR 83694

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement proposed to incorporate certain documents by referenceProduction Measurement Industry Standards and Safety Industry Standards, including one International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission standardinto the regulations governing oil, gas, and sulfur operations on the outer continental shelf.

Louisiana v. Haaland

The Fifth Circuit dismissed intervening environmental groups' challenge to a district court order requiring the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to hold an oil and gas lease sale on the outer continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico. The state of Louisiana and oil companies initially sued BOE...

88 FR 80298

EPA adopted a Bureau of Indian Affairs’ categorical exclusion for waste management activities involving remediation of hazardous waste sites under NEPA for use by EPA’s Contaminated Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Lands Assistance Program. 

Powder River Basin Resource Council v. U.S. Dept of Interior

A district court denied environmental groups' motion to preliminarily enjoin an oil drilling project in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. The groups argued DOI's initial approval of the project violated NEPA by failing to take a "hard look" at relevant environmental issues, violated FLPMA by failing to ...