Bill Barrett Corp. v. United States Department of the Interior

MEMORANDUM OPINION

RICHARD J. LEON, District Judge.

Plaintiff Bill Barrett Corporation (“BBC”) has filed suit under the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”) challenging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (“BLM”) grant of a coal exploration license to BTU Western Resources, Inc. (“BTU”). BBC claims that the exploration license must be set aside because it lacks sufficient stipulations to protect BBC’s rights to extract coalbed natural gas (“CBNG”) under preexisting licenses should BBC’s wells be contaminated by BTU’s coal exploration drilling. Presently before the Court is BBC’s motion for a…