The Bureau of Land Management is “willfully ignoring the full impact” of its decision to authorize oil and gas leasing in southwestern Colorado, environmental groups say in their lawsuit filed in a federal court Wednesday.
The agency’s approval violates the National Environmental Policy Act and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, according to the petition for review filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.
The agency issued a revised resource management plan in April 2019 for its Uncompahgre Field Office, which allocates 871,810 acres of federal mineral estate and federal surface estate as “open” to ...
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