ELR Citation: ELR 20101
No(s). 06-2352 (10th Cir. Apr 28, 2009)

The Tenth Circuit held that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) violated the National Environmental Policy act (NEPA) when it opened New Mexico's Otero Mesa, the largest publicly owned expanse of undisturbed Chihuahuan Desert grassland in the United States, to mining. BLM opened the majority of the ...