Land Management Plans Didn’t Consider Low-Coal Alternatives, Federal Judge Finds

Mealey's (August 17, 2022, 9:04 AM EDT) -- GREAT FALLS, Mont. — In a second case challenging two U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) revisions of land management plans in Montana and Wyoming, a federal judge on Aug. 3 granted several environmentalist groups summary judgement and denied BLM’s motion to remand, finding that BLM, when making its revisions, failed to consider the downstream effects of fossil fuel burning and alternative plans that wouldn’t expand coal development....