Groups: Trump Administration’s Lease Approvals Will ‘Adversely Impact’ Public

(June 7, 2019, 12:13 PM EDT) -- DENVER — Environmental groups on June 5 sued the Trump administration in Colorado federal court seeking declaratory and injunctive relief and a review of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) decision to issue 59 oil and gas leases for hydraulic fracturing covering 61,910.92 acres in Utah, saying the agency did not consider how the air pollution from developing the leases would “adversely impact public health, the environment, the climate, and treasured public lands like Dinosaur National Monument” (Rocky Mountain Wild, et al. v. David Bernhardt, et al., No. 19-1608, D. Colo.)....

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