Legal Opinion
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. United States Department of Interior
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 6, 2014No. 13 Civ. 942(PAE)PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION & ORDER
PAUL A. ENGELMAYER, District Judge.
This suit brought under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552 (“FOIA”), concerns a request by the Natural Resources Defense Council (“NRDC”) for *389records of coal-mining leases previously awarded by the U.S. Department of Interi- or (“DOI”) and Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) (collectively the “Government”) to private mining companies in the Powder River Basin, in southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming. These leases involved billions of tons of coal.
NRDC seeks the Government’s coal appraisal records from those past awards in order to…
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