Missouri v. United States Department of the Interior
A district court denied summary judgment for the state of Missouri in a challenge to the Bureau of Reclamation's approval of a water supply project in North Dakota. Missouri argued the Bureau violated NEPA by failing to prepare an EIS, failing to take a "hard look" at the effectiveness of mitigation...
Center for Biological Diversity v. Mayorkas
A district court granted in part and denied in part summary judgment for an environmental group and U.S. congressman in a lawsuit concerning enforcement activity along the U.S.-Mexico border. The plaintiffs argued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) violated NEPA by failing to issue a suppleme...
Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic v. Bureau of Land Management
A district court vacated BLM's approval of an oil and gas project in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Indigenous and environmental groups argued BLM violated NEPA by failing to adequately analyze the effects of the project's downstream greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in its EIS, failing to c...
Stop B2H Coalition v. Bureau of Land Management
A district court denied nonprofit groups' motion for summary judgment in a challenge to BLM's decision authorizing a power company to construct a portion of an electrical transmission line across roughly 100 miles of federal land. The groups argued BLM violated NEPA by failing to supplement the fina...