Wyoming Electric Line Environment Assessment Flawed, Group Says

A Wyoming nonprofit and a local biologist are challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s approval of an electric transmission line aiming to connect a wind farm to the grid.

The agency violated the National Environmental Policy Act and Administrative Procedure Act when authorizing the right of way for the Rock Creek transmission line, the petitioners said July 28 in the US District Court for the District of Wyoming.

The required environmental assessment that BLM conducted, which found the project will have no significant environmental impacts, is flawed and the agency failed to solicit public comments per the rulemaking process, they ...