Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance v. U.S. Department of the Interior

Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the District of Utah challenging BLM’s 2019 approval of a 125,000-acre potash mining project in Utah’s West Desert and BLM’s 2025 decision to approve a modification of the project. The complaint alleged that BLM violated NEPA by using a Determination of NEPA Adequacy that concluded the 2019 analysis of the project sufficiently analyzed the modified project. The complaint’s allegations included that BLM failed to take a hard look at direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts on resources that included climate.