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Ohio Environmental Council v. U.S. Forest Service
Ohio Environmental Council v. U.S. Forest Service ↗
2:21-cv-04380S.D. Ohio2 entries
Filing Date
Type
Action Taken
Document
Summary
03/30/2023
Decision
Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part and defendants' motion for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part.
An Ohio federal court briefly mentioned climate change in its decision on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and National Forest Management Act (NFMA) claims challenging a project that authorized 2,485 acres of timber harvest in Wayne National Forest in southeast Ohio. The court found that the U.S. Forest Service responded adequately to issues the plaintiff raised about the project’s impact on fungal networks and their role in “carbon storage and sequestration … and [] forest health and resiliency in the face of climate change.” The court ruled for the plaintiff on other aspects of its NEPA claim but denied the plaintiff’s NFMA claim.