Legal Opinion
Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment v. United States Office of Surface Mining Reclamation & Enforcement
District Court, D. Colorado
Decided March 2, 2015No. Civil Action No. 12-cv-01275-JLKPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
Kane, Senior U.S. District Court Judge
Despite hundreds of pages of briefing and a voluminous administrative record, this case presents a relatively straightforward question: must the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and . Enforcement (“OSM”) consider the environmental impacts related to the combustion, at the Four Corners Power Plant, of coal that will be mined as a result of OSM’s approval of the Navajo Transitional Energy Company’s (“NTEC”) Permit Revision Application? Because I answer this question in the affirmative, and because I find that OSM failed to…
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