ELR Citation: 54 ELR 20028
No(s). 22-35789 and 22-35790 (9th Cir. Feb 21, 2024)

In an unpublished opinion, the Ninth Circuit vacated a district court's judgment reinstating a 2016 moratorium on new coal leasing on public lands that was lifted by a DOI secretarial order in 2017. Environmental groups, several states, and a tribe argued BLM's final EA and FONSI violated NEPA. DOI ...