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

Date
2025
Geography
Utah
Part of
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance v. U.S. Department of the Interior

About this case

Filing year
2025
Status
Complaint filed.
Geography
Docket number
2:25-cv-00657
Court/admin entity
United States → Federal Courts → D. Utah
Case category
Federal Statutory Claims → NEPA
Principal law
United States → Administrative Procedure Act (APA)United States → National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
At issue
Challenge to the Bureau of Land Management’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.

Documents

Filing Date
Type
Action Taken
Document
Summary
08/07/2025
Complaint
Complaint filed.
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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.

Summary

Challenge to the Bureau of Land Management’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.