Description: Challenge to BLM’s approval of a resource management plan amendment for a planning area that included California’s Bay Area and Central coast that would make 725,500 acres available for oil and gas leasing.
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Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Bureau of Land Management
Case Documents:
Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 10/30/2019 Complaint Download Complaint filed. Lawsuit Filed Challenging Resource Management Plan Amendment that Makes Bay Area and Central Coast Public Lands Available for Oil and Gas Development. Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the Northern District of California challenging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM’s) approval of a resource management plan amendment for a planning area that included California’s Bay Area and Central coast. The complaint alleged that the plan amendment would make 725,500 acres available for oil and gas leasing and that BLM’s environmental review failed to adequately analyze the impacts of oil and gas development, including effects on greenhouse gas emission and the climate.