Environmental Groups Appeal Green River Block Exchange Water Contract

Mealey's (March 8, 2022, 4:36 PM EST) -- DENVER — Five environmental groups on Feb. 2 asked the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to find that a water contract negotiated between the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Utah violated the National Environment Policy Act (NEPA) and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) because the agencies failed to take a “hard look” at the contract’s effect on future water supply....