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

Geography
🇺🇸 United States / Utah
Year
2025
Document Type
Litigation
Part of
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance v. U.S. Department of the Interior

About this case

Filing year
2025
Status
Complaint filed.
Geography
🇺🇸 United States → Utah
Docket number
2:25-cv-00657
Court/admin entity
United States → United States Federal Courts → United States District of Utah (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
Document
Type
08/07/2025
Complaint filed.
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.
Complaint

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.