WildEarth Guardians v. United States Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation & Enforcement

ORDER

R. Brooke Jackson, United States District Judge

This case concerns whether the United States Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement (“OSM”), the Western Regional Director of OSM, and the Secretary of the Interior complied with the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) when they approved two mining plan modifications. The plaintiff contends that the defendants failed to comply with either of NEPA’s primary requirements— they neither 'involved the public nor took a hard look .at the environmental impacts of the proposed modifications. Based on a review of the briefs and…