Friends of the Floridas v. U.S. Bureau of Land Management

The federal district court for the District of New Mexico remanded a case challenging the approval of a magnesium ore mining project to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for additional consideration of water quality impacts but found that BLM otherwise complied with the National Environmental Policy Act and the Federal Land Policy Management Act. The court found that BLM took the required “hard look” at reasonably foreseeable air quality impacts of an off-site processing mill, including impacts on emissions of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and sulfur hexafluoride.