WildEarth Guardians v. United States Bureau of Land Management

A federal district court in the District of Columbia granted the Bureau of Land Management’s motion to transfer a case involving challenges to coal leases to Wyoming, holding that the case could have been brought in Wyoming and public interests weighed decisively in favor of transfer.

An environmental nonprofit group filed a lawsuit against BLM alleging that the agency’s authorization of four large coal leases in the Power River Basin without fully analyzing the climate change impacts of increased carbon dioxide emissions in violation of NEPA.  According to the complaint, collectively, the four leases have the potential to produce more than 1.8 billion tons of coal, resulting in over three billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.