Federal - Oil & Gas

摘要

In WildEarth Guardians v. BLM, No. l:16-cv-03141, 2018 WL1905145 (D. Colo. Apr. 23,2018), the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado upheld the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) decision to offer lands for lease at two sales without preparing a conformity determination under the Clean Air Act (CAA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401-7671q. The leases at issue were located in northeast Colorado in an area designated as nonattainment with the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for ozone.