Legal Opinion
WildEarth Guardians v. United States Bureau of Land Management
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided September 15, 2017No. 15-8109PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRISCOE, Circuit Judge.
Appellants WildEarth Guardians and Sierra Club (Plaintiffs) challenge the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) decision to approve four coal leases in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. Plaintiffs brought an Administrative Procedure Act (APA) claim arguing that the BLM failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) when it concluded that issuing the leases would not result in higher national carbon dioxide emissions than would declining to issue them. The district court upheld the leases. We reverse and remand with instructions to the BLM to revise its…
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