National Wildlife Fed'n v. Babbitt
ELR Citation: ELR 20200 No(s). 88-0301 (D.D.C. Jul 30, 1993)
The court holds that the U.S. Department of the Interior's (DOI's) February 1986 decision to resume coal leasing under its 1982 federal coal leasing program without adding wetlands unsuitability to its criteria for making land use decisions was arbitrary and capricious. In December 1987, DOI promulg...