Legal Opinion
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. United States Department of Interior
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 11, 2014No. 13 Civ. 942(PAE)PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION & ORDER
PAUL A. ENGELMAYER, District Judge:
This opinion resolves the final outstanding portion of a dispute between the Natural Resources Defense Council (“NRDC”), and the U.S. Department of Interior (“DOI”) and Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) (collectively, the “Government”). Under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552 (“FOIA”), the NRDC sought to obtain records of coal-mining leases previously awarded by the Government to private mining companies in the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming. The Government produced the requested documents but redacted them extensively…
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