Interior Urges Court To Dismiss First Suit To Enforce NEPA Deadline

The Interior Department (DOI) is urging a federal district court to dismiss a mining company’s case charging officials have missed new congressional deadlines to complete a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review -- the first such suit that seeks to enforce the Fiscal Responsibility Act’s (FRA) NEPA deadlines and provision for applicants to sue. In an April 22 motion to dismiss in Signal Peak Energy LLC v. Haaland before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the...