Federal - Mining

摘要

Supplemental Programmatic EIS Not Needed for Federal Coal Program In Western Organization of Resource Councils v. Jewell, No. l:14-cv-01993, 2015 WL 5076976 (D.D.C. Aug. 27, 2015), appeal docketed, No. 15-5294 (D.C. Cir. Oct. 28, 2015), the district court considered the plaintiffs' challenge under the Administrative Procedure Act and the National Environmental Policy.Act of 1969 (NEPA) to the defendants' implementation of the federal coal management program. Specifically, the plaintiffs argued that the defendants were required, but had failed, to supplement the 1979 environmental impact statement (EIS) for the federal coal program with a supplemental programmatic EIS "assess[ing] the effect of the [p]rogam on the global climate."