Interior’s Glen Canyon Dam Management Plan Upheld by Ninth Cir.

The Interior Department adequately considered climate change in its management decisions for the Colorado River’s Glen Canyon Dam, the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday.

Save the Colorado, Living Rivers, and Center for Biological Diversity sued the agency in 2019, claiming that drought conditions are expected to increase in severity in the coming years, affecting the Colorado River’s water levels and likely creating a supply and demand problem for the millions of people who depend on it. Yet none of the alternatives put forward in the Interior’s environmental impact statement for the Long-Term and Experimental Management Plan would change the Glen Canyon ...