Wilderness Society v. Haaland

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WILDERNESS SOCIETY, et al., Plaintiffs, v. DOUGLAS BURGUM,1 et al., Case No. 22-cv-1871 (CRC) Defendants, and STATE OF WYOMING, et al., Intervenor-Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION In June 2022, Plaintiffs Wilderness Society and Friends of the Earth (collectively, the “Conservation Groups”) filed this lawsuit challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s (“BLM”) decision to auction almost 120,000 acres of public land in Wyoming for oil and gas development. The Court awarded partial summary judgment to the Conservation Groups, concluding…