The Bureau of Land Management must revise its analysis of the climate change impacts of extending the life of two Wyoming coal mines, a federal appellate court ruled.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reversed an earlier court ruling and sided with WildEarth Guardians and the Sierra Club in their challenge of BLM’s approval of leases for four coal tracts at surface mines in the Powder River Basin—Arch Coal’s Black Thunder mine and Peabody Energy’s North Antelope Rochelle mine (WildEarth Guardians v. U.S. Bureau of Land Management, 10th Cir., No. 15-8109, 9/15/17).
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