Sierra Club v. Hoffman

Challenge to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s approval of the expansion of a coal mine Utah.

Sierra Club filed a federal lawsuit in the District of Utah alleging that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s approval of the expansion of a coal mine Utah violated the National Environmental Policy Act and the Administrative Procedure Act. The complaint alleged that the defendants failed to consider “reasonable, middle-ground” alternatives, that the environmental assessment presented “an economically skewed analysis” that ignored socioeconomic and environmental costs of mining additional coal, and that the environmental assessment did not analyze short- and long-term impacts of methane emissions.