Description: Challenge to Forest Service’s EIS for failure to mitigate climate impacts of methane venting.
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WildEarth Guardians v. United States Forest Service
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Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 10/31/2011 Opinion and Order Download Opinion and order issued affirming agency decision. The district court, after finding that WildEarth had standing to maintain the action, upheld the FEIS, holding that the agency’s decision not to flare or otherwise capture the methane gas was not arbitrary or capricious. In addition, the court held that the FEIS adequately addressed the climate change-related impacts of this decision. 04/01/2010 Memorandum Opinion and Order Download Order remanding administrative records to Respondents for completion. The environmental group brought a motion to compel certain administrative records in connection with the approval of the expansion. The district court held the records should be remanded to the U.S. Forest Service to include all materials directly and indirectly considered in its decision and that these records should be produced to the group. 02/20/2009 Complaint Download First amended complaint filed. 10/07/2008 Complaint Download Complaint filed. Environmental groups sued the U.S. Forest Service, alleging that in an environmental impact statement concerning a coal mine, it failed to identify a reasonable range of alternatives to methane venting, as well as failing to identify measures that would mitigate the effects of the release of the methane and failing to analyze the climate change impacts of methane venting. -
WildEarth Guardians v. United States Forest Service
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Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 07/24/2009 Opinion Download Opinion issued reversing denial of motion to intervene. The coal company sought to intervene in the case. The district court denied the motion. On appeal, the 10th Circuit reversed, holding that the company demonstrated that the outcome of the case could potentially impair its interests and that its interests were not adequately represented by the Forest Service in the action. -
WildEarth Guardians v. United States Forest Service
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Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 03/07/2012 Order Download Appeals voluntarily dismissed.