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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJudge: Trump Admin. Must Consider Climate Change in Major Drilling and Mining Lease Plan
The plan covers 15 million acres in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming. The ruling on it is the latest to cite risks of fossil fuels and global warming.A federal court has ruled against a U.S. Interior Department plan to open more than 15 million acres of public land and mineral rights to fossil fuel extraction, concluding that the government failed to adequately consider how the oil, gas and coal development would affect the climate and other environmental resources.
The U.S. District Court decision Friday in Montana throws a new roadblock before the Trump administration's goal of expanding and accelerating fossil extraction from federal lands.
The case was filed in 2016 by a coalition of environmental groups over a plan by the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management to lease federally owned land in the Powder River Basin of eastern Montana and Wyoming. While the BLM plan included the possibility of oil and gas development in the area, the Powder River Basin is the country's largest coal producing region. About 40 percent of all the coal burned in the U.S. comes from the area, and it accounts for about 10 percent of the country's annual greenhouse gas emissions.
The plaintiffs contended that the fossil fuel development plans for the vast Miles City, Montana, and Buffalo, Wyoming, federal tracts violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by failing to account fully for the damage the coal, oil and gas would do to the environment, including the climate.
The area holds about 10.2 billion tons of coal and the possibility of 18,000 new oil and gas wells, the plaintiffs estimated.
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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26032018/coal-mining-climate-impacts-powder-river-basin-fossil-fuels-wyoming-montana-blm-nepa-ruling
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Judge: Trump Admin. Must Consider Climate Change in Major Drilling and Mining Lease Plan (Original Post)
kpete
Mar 2018
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malaise
(268,967 posts)1. Get this to the greatest page
Rec
is tough to find these days...
peace,
kp
malaise
(268,967 posts)3. Yes - judges usually like facts
and climate change is a fact
G_j
(40,367 posts)4. this is great news
some hope
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)5. republicans lies to Americans about climate change are DANGEROUS
republican lies are fantastic for polluting multinational corporations, and poison for Americans. republicans need to stop lying. It's disgusting.