Status: Petition for review of agency action filed. [ 10/26/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to BLM's decisions to re-affirm the Trump administration's authorization and issuance of oil and gas leases on 42 parcels as well as the approval of 120 Applications for Permit to Drill in the Greater Chaco area in New Mexico.
Status: Motion to intervene filed by Franklin Mountain Energy, LLC. [ 08/31/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to approval of at least 3,535 applications for permit to drill (APDs) for oil and gas in the Permian Basin in New Mexico and in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.
Description: Challenge to the review of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's revised livestock grazing analysis for the Sonoran Desert National Monument Resource Management Plan.
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Department of Interior’s approval of a land exchange to facilitate expansion of phosphogypsum stacks located on a Superfund site.
Status: Stipulation of dismissal granted. [ 08/15/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to approval of an application for a permit to drill in connection with a new well and pipeline within the Carrizo Plain National Monument in California.
Status: Plaintiffs' motions for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part, BLM’s approval of the Willow Project under NEPA vacated, FWS's biological opinion vacated, and action remanded to appropriate agencies for further proceedings. [ 08/18/2021 ]
Description: Challenges to approval of a development plan for major oil and gas development in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
Status: Petition for review of agency action filed. [ 09/15/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s approval of a resource management plan that opened land in western Colorado to oil and gas leasing.
Status: Stipulation of dismissal filed. [ 08/11/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's approval of a revised Resource Management Plan for the Uncompahgre Field Office that expanded lands available to oil and gas leasing.
Status: Joint stipulation of dismissal with prejudice filed. [ 08/11/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to authorization and issuance of oil and gas leases on 30 parcels covering nearly 41,000 acres of land in the San Juan Basin in New Mexico.
Status: Status report filed by defendants. [ 07/18/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to federal approvals for a 211-mile road through the southern Brooks Range and Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve to provide access to a mining district.
Status: Motion for temporary restraining order denied. [ 03/29/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging BLM’s March 2019 decision to reverse portions of the 2015 conservation plan for the greater sage-grouse in Oregon by closing approximately 22,000 acres to livestock grazing.